Murphy and Mousetrap

Sylvia Olsen was born and brought up in Victoria, B.C. She married into the Tsartlip First Nation when she was seventeen, and for more than thirty years she has lived and worked and raised her four children in the Tsartlip community. She returned to school at age thirty-five and earned a master's degree in history, specializing in Native/white relations in Canada. As a writer, she often finds herself exploring the in-between place where Native and non-Native people meet. Sylvia currently works in the area of First
Nations community management, with a focus on reserve housing.