Micah Toub was born in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 1976. When he was one, his family moved to Colorado and he spent his childhood in a suburban tract housing development outside of Denver called The Friendly Hills. There were no hills there, but he did have a few friends. After his parents divorced when he was twelve years old, he split his time between Denver and Boulder. He attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and graduated with a degree in English Literature and a Canadian girlfriend. The two moved to New York City, where Toub worked as a publicist for art publisher Abbeville Press and then as an editor for Art On Paper magazine. In 2002, he and the aforementioned girlfriend took a three-month road trip around North America and landed in Toronto, where they later married and then even later divorced.
In Toronto, Toub has worked at a bookstore, interned at too many places to list, became an associate editor at the now-defunct mens’ magazine Toro, and was an editor at The Globe and Mail. He now is a full-time writer. In addition to having written a memoir about growing up as the son of two shrinks, he writes a bi-weekly column on relationships from the male perspective for The Globe and Mail, keeps a blog at Psychology Today’s website, and has contributed to a variety of magazines including The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Report on Business, Azure’s Designlines, and Quill and Quire. He received a National Magazine Award in Personal Journalism for an article that appeared in Toro.