Sylvie Bertrand is a writer living in Brooklyn. A native French speaker, she was born and grew up in Montreal. She writes flash fiction, short stories, and is working on her first novel, which centers around the Oka Crisis of 1990 and the competing claims of the Canadian government, French-Canadians, and the Mohawk tribe over the development of a golf course on burial grounds in a suburb of Montreal.
Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, Del Sol Review, Cleaver Magazine, and Penultimate Peanut Magazine. She was nominated for the 2017 Pen / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and received a 2018 Pushcart Special Mention. She has undergraduate degrees in Communication and Literature, Political Sciences, and a MA in Anthropology from Princeton University.
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