Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, includ­ing the nov­els Pure Colour, Moth­er­hood, and How Should a Per­son Be?, which New York deemed one of the ​“New Clas­sics” of the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry. She was named one of the ​“New Van­guard” by the New York Times book crit­ics, who, along with a dozen oth­er mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers, chose Moth­er­hood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been trans­lat­ed into twen­ty-four lan­guages. She lives in Toronto.