I am a California native, U.C. Berkeley grad, and family matriarch with a high-tech marcom career in my past and a career as a novelist in my future. I call home the Sierra foothills near Yosemite and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. When I’m not writing and traveling, I volunteer at the food closet and in our elementary school reading program, sing in the church choir, and serve on the board of our senior center.

Professional Bio:

Sydney Avey earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and did postgraduate work in mass communications at San Jose State University. She lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Yosemite, California, and the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, and has a lifetime of experience writing news for non profits and corporations.

Sydney has attended many writers conferences, including Write on the Sound and Writing for the Soul, and given seminars at Tuolumne Writers Retreat.  She has work featured or forthcoming in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and American Athenauem.

Sydney blogs at sydneyavey.com about the themes she explores in her writing–relationships, legacy, faith and wanderlust.