Lali Tsipi Michaeli

Lali Tsipi Michaeli is an Israeli poet. She immigrated from Georgia to Israel at the age of 7. She has published six poetry books so far. Attended international poetry festivals. She was part of a residency program for talented writers in New York in 2018.
Her books have been translated into foreign languages in New York, India, France, Italy, Georgia, Ukraina, Russןa, Romania, Turkish, China, among other countries. Michaeli was defined by Prof. Gabriel Moked as “Urban-Erotic Poet” in his book ” In real-time” and considered innovative by critics.

The poet and critic Jonathan Berg diagnosed a new poetic language in Michaeli’s poetry and writes in Walla!: “Michaeli is very busy with the new: in the search for new ways to express and reflect reality, this is true both in the formal side and in the content related to the content of her poetry. Michaeli’s poems are not ‘disciplined’, the basic order that leads them is the movement of consciousness and search in the language of expression to that Free movement.” In the Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Competition, she won the Poiesis International Award for Excellence In Poetry (2021).

Lali taught the Hebrew language at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, and Ben-Gurion University. She has one son and lives in Tel Aviv by the sea.

Photo by: Zvi Pfeffer