Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, O Magazine and included in the Best American Short Stories.
[1] Sheila Kohler was born 13 November 1941 in Johannesburg[2] and educated at St. Andrew's School for Girls, where she matriculated in 1958 and earned a distinction in History.
[2] She now teaches at Princeton University[1] and Columbia,[4] writes a blog for Psychology Today,[5] and lives in New York City and Amagansett, Long Island.
[citation needed] She has three daughters: Sasha Troyan, herself a published novelist,[6] Cybele, and Brett[7] Sheila is married to Dr. William Tucker, a psychiatrist.
[8] As revealed in the authors website, the violent death of her sister thirty years ago in apartheid South Africa caused her to explore in her fiction the theme of "violence within intimate relationships, in particular, the abuse of power and privilege."