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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 House of Anansi in Canada, Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States, and Éditions Phébus 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." It has sold out every show since its inception in December 2001.

She is a frequent contributor to Geist magazine.

She appears in Margaux Williamson's film, Teenager Hamlet 2006.

She plays Lenore Doolan in Leanne Shapton's book, Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry.

In September, 2010, Heti will publish a new novel, How Should a Person Be?, which she describes as book of constructed reality, based on recorded interviews with her friends, particularly the painter Margaux Williamson. In her 2007 interview with Dave Hickey for The Believer, she noted, "Increasingly I’m less interested in writing about fictional people, because it seems so tiresome to make up a fake person and put them through the paces of a fake story. I just ... I can’t do it."

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