Born and raised in southern Ontario, Sylvia began her formal art education in high school, at the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto. In 1997 Sylvia moved to New Brunswickand attended Mount Allison University, where she studied both fine arts and mathematics. She is currently studying at University of Toronto. Sylvia’s illustrations have been published in The Globe and Mail, Briarpatch magazine, The Literary Review of Canada, The Coast (Halifax’s free newspaper), The New Quarterly, Carousel Magazine, The Canadian Undergraduate Physics Journal, and Freedom to Read magazine. She is a regular contributing illustrator to The Dominion. http://sylvianickerson.ca/