Born in 1970 at Montréal’s Hôpital de la Miséricorde, Sylvie Bérard was adopted at two and a half years old. In 2019, after more than thirty years of searching, she reunited with her family of origin, an experience that became the catalyst for her first book, Mamy Blues: An Adoption, a Search, a Reunion.

After seven years in California and an early career in museum studies, Sylvie shifted toward holistic medicine and completed her training in acupuncture. She has maintained a private practice in Montréal for over twenty years. She is the mother of a teenage son and an enthusiastic taekwondo practitioner. Mamy Blues is her first book.