Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of elevenbooks, including the novels How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood and Pure Colour. Fitzcarraldo published her new book, Alphabetical Diaries, in February 2024.
Photograph © Steph Martyniuk
Sheila Heti on Granta.com
In Conversation | Issue 166
A Good First Marriage is Luck
Sheila Heti & Phyllis Rose
‘Life is so difficult. It may take more than one creature to sustain one life.’
Sheila Heti in conversation with Phyllis Rose.
Fiction | Issue 158
Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
‘She had never seen that colour before. It was the colour of a father dying.’
An excerpt from Sheila Heti’s forthcoming novel.
In Conversation | Issue 145
Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation
Sheila Heti & Tao Lin
Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.