1. Sheila Heti was born on 25 December 1976 in Toronto.
15 Facts About Sheila Heti
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Sheila Heti graduated from North Toronto Collegiate Institute in Toronto.
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Sheila Heti then studied playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada and then art history as well as philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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Sheila Heti's writing spans a variety of genres including plays, short fiction, and novels.
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Sheila Heti has contributed to periodicals such as Flare, London Review of Books, Brick, Open Letters, Maisonneuve, Bookforum, n+1, the Look, McSweeney's, and the New York Times.
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Sheila Heti's books have been published internationally, including France, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark.
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Sheila Heti formerly worked as the interviews editor at The Believer where she conducts interviews regularly.
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Sheila Heti is the creator of Trampoline Hall, a popular monthly lecture series based in Toronto and New York at which people speak on subjects outside their areas of expertise.
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Sheila Heti was an actress as a child and as a teenager appeared in shows directed by Hillar Liitoja, the founder and artistic director of the experimental DNA Theatre.
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Sheila Heti appears in Margaux Williamson's 2010 film, Teenager Hamlet and plays Lenore Doolan from Leanne Shapton's book, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry.
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Sheila Heti describes it as a work of constructed reality, based on recorded interviews with her friends, particularly the painter Margaux Williamson.
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McSweeney's commissioned the children's book from Sheila Heti; it was illustrated by Clare Rojas.
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In Fall 2014, Sheila Heti published a non-fiction book about women's relationship to what they wear, with co-editors Leanne Shapton and Heidi Julavits.
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In May 2018, Sheila Heti published an autobiographical novel, Motherhood, focused on her deliberation on whether or not to have children.
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Sheila Heti had taken a decade's worth of diaries and ordered the sentences alphabetically, before spending another decade or so paring them down into a new book.