Sheila Heti (1976‒ ) was born on 25 December in Toronto, Ontario to Jewish Hungarian parents. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, completing one year there before leaving to study art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Heti has produced works in nearly every form, including her first short story collection The Middle Stories (2001); two collaborations, The Chairs Are Where the People Go (2011) and Women in Clothes (2014); a play, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid (2015); a children’s book, We Need a Horse (2011); as well as her novels Ticknor (2005), How Should a Person Be? (2010), and Motherhood (2018). She was formerly the Interviews Editor at The Believer magazine, and co-founded the lecture series Trampoline Hall. Heti has been named by The New York Times one of “The New Vanguard.” Her most recent book, Motherhood, was named one of New York Times’ top books of 2018, and was chosen by New York Magazine as the best book of the year; her other fiction and non-fiction works have also had significant success. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Bookforum, n+1, Granta, The London Review of Books, and elsewhere. Heti is developing a new play titled The Dug Out, and is also currently working on two new works, a children’s book entitled Garden of Creatures and a new novel, Pure Colour, which are both set to release in 2022.
Sources:
Dey, Claudia. “The Child Thing: An Interview with Sheila Heti.” The Paris Review, 26 April 2018. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/04/26/the-child-thing-an-interview-with-sheila-heti/.
Sheila Heti. www.sheilaheti.com/.