Tetiana Michaels was born in 1986. She grew up in a part of Western Ukraine known as Bukovyna, in a city called Chernivtsi, historically predominately Jewish. She received Masters degrees in law from top universities in Ukraine, the USA and the UK, and then pursued an international legal career. When Tetiana is not at work she can be found hiking in the Swiss Alps and photographing wildlife. Tetiana lives in Zurich, Switzerland with her husband and daughter. Osher is her first book.