Sheila Heti

Bio

Sheila Heti is the author of seven books, including the 2012 novel, How Should a Person Be?, which was a New York Times Notable Book and was called by Time magazine “one of the most talked-about books of the year.” She is co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes, which features the voices of 639 women from around the world. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her latest novel, Motherhood, was published in May 2018. She is the former Interviews Editor of The Believer magazine, and her writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, n+1, Harper’s, The New York Times and The London Review of Books. She has lectured at MoMA, The New Yorker Festival, Columbia University, Brown University, the Hammer Museum, the Cúirt Festival, the Sydney Writers Festival, and elsewhere. Her play, All Our Happy Days are Stupid, had a sold-out run at The Kitchen in New York, and Videofag in Toronto.