Liza Michaeli
Liza is a poet and philosopher, born and living in Jerusalem. Her work is a poetic evocation of the existential challenges of a meaningful life; she is interested in what it means to touch life and live it, in its physical struggle, honestly. Her first book, Recovering the Pain, considers what it means (not) to avoid the pain of living, and her second, How We Are with One Another, considers what it takes to be human with one another. Liza regularly teaches in literature, existential philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, religion, and music. She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley and is presently a Researcher at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and was, in the past year, a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem.