Sheila Heti is the author of eight books of fiction and non-fiction, including the novels Ticknor, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? and the story collection The Middle Stories. She was named one of ‘The New Vanguard’ by The New York Times book critics; 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-two languages.