Liza Michaeli is a Jerusalem-born Russian poet and philosopher. She is completing a doctorate in Rhetoric, with Designated Emphases in Critical Theory and Jewish Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. She regularly teaches in literature, existential philosophy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, religion, and music. Recovering the Pain, her first book, originating in her dissertation, considers what it means to touch life and live it, in its physical struggle, honestly, to say "yes" to life, physically. Her second book project, How We Are with One Another, considers what it takes to be human with one another.