A 2009 graduate of the Clarion Workshop, her fantasy stories have been published in Daily Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Electric Velocipede.

[1] In 2016, Baker published Borderline, the first novel in the Arcadia Project urban fantasy series with Simon & Schuster's imprint Saga Press (edited by Navah Wolfe).

It was a Publishers Weekly staff pick,[2] and Barnes & Noble chose it as one of the best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2016.

[5] Mishell Baker lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner and two children.

[1] In November 2022, Baker was diagnosed with metastatic appendix cancer and placed on palliative chemotherapy.