Sylvie Hill

Sylvie Hill: Polite, refined and elegant? Try honest, irreverent and sassy.

Sylvie Hill writes about arts, entertainment, culture and sex in the same punchy, conversational style that she uses to entertain her live audiences during her spoken-word performances.

Her motto: Follow what you love and you won’t get lost. Reach out to people who can take you there.

This passion-first resolve and a desire to connect with an audience have earned Sylvie a local profile as a fiery writer and performer in Ottawa, Canada’s Capital City.

Her literary works, journalism, and television/radio appearances plug you into the world of smart and cool.

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Sylvie Hill was born in Calgary, Alberta and moved to Ottawa in 1979, at the age of five. She received a Master’s degree in English Literature from Carleton University, with a focus on sexual frustration and artistic production in James Joyce’s Ulysses. She’s worked in the education field as a university arts reporter and college instructor, and for the Government of Canada as an editor and speech writer. Currently, she’s a senior communications advisor for environmental stewardship (a second passion) for the federal government.

Sylvie’s cultural columns, editorials, book reviews and music features have appeared in several places, including The Ottawa Citizen, The Ottawa XPress, Hour Montreal, and in magazines such as The Face (U.K.) and Toronto’s Lola Art Magazine.

Toronto magazines, including INK! and Blood & Aphorisms’ Literary Babes Issue 2002, have published her poetry, along with Ottawa magazines such as The Algonquin Roundtable Review, Bywords and Pervert COMIX.

Sylvie has worked in community radio (CHUO 89.1 FM) and lent her voice to local commercial radio. You may have seen her on stage as one of a few regular Emcees at the popular Westboro, Ontario summer festival, WESTFEST.

She is also the national television host of the reality dating series, The Letters: Rediscovering the Art of Courtship.