Sheila Heti

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Sheila Heti (born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer.

Heti, who was born in Toronto, Ontario, studied art history and philosophy at the University of Toronto and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.

Heti's novel, Ticknor, was released in 2005. It borrows as its main characters William Hickling Prescott and George Ticknor, though it alters the facts of their lives. It was published by Anansi in Canada, Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States, and Editions Phebus in France. Her short story collection, The Middle Stories, was published by House of Anansi in Canada and McSweeney's in the United States, and translated into German, French, Spanish and Dutch.

She is the creator of Trampoline Hall, a popular lecture series based in Toronto and New York, at which people speak on subjects outside their areas of expertise. The New Yorker praised the series for "celebrating eccentricity and do-it-yourself inventiveness."

[edit] Bibliography

• The Middle Stories (2001) McSweeney's
• Ticknor (2005) Farrar, Straus & Giroux

[edit] External links

• Sheila Heti's website
• Trampoline Hall
• Condalmo interview
• Interview with Dan Wickett
• Audio interview with Bill Richardson on the CBC

Writing

• The Girl Who Planted Flowers
• The Poet and the Novelist as Roommates
• Two Walls
• Mermaid in a Jar
• The Fundamental Race
• What Changed
• Eleanor
• Stealing Glances