Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including internationally critically acclaimed novels How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood. She was named one of 'The New Vanguard' by The New York Times; a list of fifteen women writers from around the world who are 'shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century'. Her books have been translated into twenty-three languages. How Should a Person Be? was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and named one of 12 'New Classics of the 21st Century' by Vulture. She is the author of two children's books, the play All Our Happy Days are Stupid, and co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. As the former Interviews Editor of The Believer magazine, she interviewed leading writers and artists including Joan Didion, Elena Ferrante and Agnes Varda, and her work has been published in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, McSweeney's, Harper's and n+1. She lives in Toronto.