Sheila Heti & Sigrid Nunez Reading & Conversation

Thursday, July 19, 7:30 p.m.Location: DMA's Horchow Auditorium

Presented by PEN America, Arts & Letters Live, and Deep Vellum

Sheila Heti is the author of eight books, including Motherhood, published in May 2018, and How Should a Person Be?, which was a New York Times Notable Book and was hailed by Time magazine as "one of the most talked-about books of the year." She is co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes, and her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, Harper’s, McSweeney's, the New York Times, and numerous other periodicals. Her play, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid, had a sold-out run at The Kitchen in New York and Videofag in Toronto. She appeared as Lenore Doolan in Leanne Shapton’s book Important Artifacts, and is currently writing its film adaptation.

Sigrid Nunez has published seven novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, Salvation City, and, most recently, The Friend, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. She has contributed to numerous journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Paris Review. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes. Among Nunez’s honors and awards are a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, and Vassar, as well as other colleges.

Authors will read brief excerpts from their latest work and then engage in conversation, moderated by Roslyn Dawson Thompson, President and CEO of Dallas Women’s Foundation.

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