SHEILA HETI is the internationally acclaimed author of the novel
Motherhood, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a Best Book of the Year by
the
New York Times,
Vulture,
NPR, and
Chicago Tribune, among others. She also wrote
How Should a Person Be?, which was named a
New York Times Notable Book as well as the story collection
The Middle Stories and the novel
Ticknor, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. She was a lead writer and editor for the anthology
Women in Clothes, a
New York Times bestseller and was named one of "The New Vanguard" by the
New York Times; 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. Sheila lives in Toronto.
ESM SHAPIRO grew up in Laurel Canyon, California and Ontario, Canada. A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design, Esm is a past recipient of both the Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship and The SILA West 53 Gold Award-Phillip Hayes Scholarship. She has previously written and illustrated
Ooko, which was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award in 2016, as well as
Alma and the Beast, which received two starred reviews, and, most recently,
Carol and the Pickle-Toad. Esm also illustrated
Yak and Dove by Kyo Maclear and
Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton by Margaret McNamara. She has exhibited at The Society of Illustrators, and her work has been featured in
Taproot and
Plansponsor magazines. Currently she and her dog, Chebini Brown, live in New York's Hudson Valley.
