Eliz­a­beth Ros­ner is a best­selling author whose work focus­es on the redemp­tive pow­er of sto­ry­telling and deep lis­ten­ing. Her six books have been trans­lat­ed into twelve lan­guages and have received lit­er­ary prizes in the US and abroad. THIRD EAR: Reflec­tions on the Art and Sci­ence of Lis­ten­ing, blends per­son­al sto­ries of grow­ing up in a mul­ti­lin­gual house­hold with mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary research about sound and silence in the nat­ur­al world. SUR­VIVOR CAFÉ: The Lega­cy of Trau­ma and the Labyrinth of Mem­o­ry, was a final­ist for a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award, and was fea­tured by NPR and in the NY Times. Her first nov­el, THE SPEED OF LIGHT, won Hadas­sah Mag­a­zine​’s Rib­alow Prize in 2002, judged by Elie Wiesel. Her poet­ry col­lec­tion, GRAV­I­TY, orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in 2014, will be reis­sued in 2026 along­side bilin­gual edi­tions in Spain and Ger­many. Based in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, Eliz­a­beth coach­es writ­ers pri­vate­ly and leads work­shops inter­na­tion­al­ly; her teach­ing car­ries for­ward a mes­sage of per­se­ver­ance and tena­cious optimism.