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Lali Tsipi Michaeli

Lali Tsipi Michaeli is an Israeli poet, born in Georgia in 1964, who has published 8 poetry books.

born 1964Poetry books including The Mad HouseThe protest anthology ResistanceA poem sent to the moon

Born: 20 March 1964, Georgia
Occupation: poet, writer

Lali Tsipi Michaeli was born in 1964 in Georgia

Lali Tsipi Michaeli was born on March 20, 1964, in Georgia. She immigrated to Israel in January 1972 with her parents and two brothers.

She holds a master's degree in comparative literature from Bar-Ilan University.

Her first book, Shirei Lali, came out in 1990, and she has published 8 poetry books. Her poems appeared in Israeli newspapers and literary journals, and her books were translated into Georgian, French, Romanian, Italian and Ukrainian. In 2011 she self-published Resistance, a protest poetry anthology with work by 22 poets.

She taught Hebrew at Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Shanghai International Studies University. In 2018 she took part in a writers' residency in New York. Her poem My Mom was sent to the moon in a time capsule in February 2024 as part of the Lunar Codex project.

In 2025 her poems were staged in Brno and Prague in the Czech Republic. She lives in Tel Aviv and has one son.