Liza Michaeli University of California, Berkeley

Liza Michaeli is a writer, originally from Jerusalem, composing in the religious and poetic register, fragments meant, in their truest form, to be delivered by the pained tenderness of voice. She is earning a doctorate in Rhetoric, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Jewish Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley, where she works from the ground of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, movement, poetics, and Jewish theology. She presently lives in Jerusalem as a Visiting Scholar in Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.