Sylvia Barnard

In retirement, after a forty year career helping students achieve their aspirations through learning at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, I’ve rekindled my love of storytelling. I'm a recent graduate of the Humber College Creative Writing Post Graduate Certificate and sit on the Canadian Authors Association Board.

Rhubarb, Strawberries and Willows is my debut novel, an historical fiction with time travel, romance and science fiction set at the property on the Spanish River where I lived in Northern Ontario, while I wrote the book.

They say you should write what you know. My second novel, A Hyphenated Life, draws on the events of my life as a child of immigrants growing up in mining communities in northwestern Quebec and north of Lake Superior.

These days, I live with my husband under a canopy of maples, on a small lake near Penetanguishene, Ontario where I snowshoe, kayak and take long hikes with my dogs when I’m not writing.