Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including Alphabetical Diaries, Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? She was named one of "The New Vanguard" by The New York Times; a list of fifteen writers from around the world who are "shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, Bookforum, n+1, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Toronto.
Sheila's fifth book, HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE ?, was a great success in North America and was published in the UK by Harvill Secker in 2013. Her novel MOTHERHOOD was published by Harvill Secker in 2018.
Her novel, PURE COLOUR, published by Harvill Secker in 2022, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2023 and won the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction. It was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, and The Times Literary Supplement, among others.
Her latest book, ALPHABETICAL DIARIES, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in February 2024 to outstanding reviews.
