[citation needed] Maylor holds a BA from the University of Calgary (honours with a specialty in creative writing and a minor in anthropology).

Her third collection, Whirr and Click,[6] was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award for best book written by a Canadian woman in 2014,[7] about which Douglas Glover writes, "Micheline Maylor writes poems with dash and élan, attack poems, full of desire, heart, dangerous men and revenge.

"[8] Her fourth collection, Little Wildheart,[9] published by the University of Alberta Press, was short-listed for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry[10] and deals with the question: What does it mean to be human?

[12] Micheline Maylor's anthology, Drifting Like a Metaphor, introduces Calgary poets of promise[13] who have the ability to make connections that work to pull together language, image, and emotion.

[17] Influences come from Don Coles, Jeffery Donaldson, Douglas Glover, Patrick Lane, George Elliot Clark, Richard Harrison, and Jan Zwicky.

Maylor is the co-founder of the non-profit Freefall Literary Society[18] where she was the editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2016 and is now consulting editor, before shifting to Frontenac House Press.

Maylor was the editor of the awarding winning "This Wound is a World[20]" by Billy-Ray Belcourt published by Frontenac House, which won the prestigious 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, and The Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer, Indigenous Voices Awards (2018), and the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize (2018).