Fia Sylvan

Fia Sylvan is an average, lower middle-class American woman. She works full-time and did so throughout the writing of this book, which took over 20 years to complete, due in part to the painful nature of some of the memories.

Fia worked in fields as varied as healthcare, horticulture, construction laborer, professional painter, retail clerk and horseback riding instructor. She has volunteered with many organizations over the years, including CAVA - Citizens Against Violent Acts, Literacy Volunteers of America, The Wetlands Conservancy, Cascadia Wild, a volunteer EMT, and currently Oregon State University Master Gardener's Association, as a Master Gardener. Her interests always wide ranging and centered around caring for her fellow beings.

Fia Sylvan is a pseudonym adopted to protect herself and others, whose lives and secrets are exposed in her book. Fia is a derivative of the Latin "Sophia", meaning wisdom, and Sylvan is also from Latin (sylvanus) meaning "of the woods". Words which hold a strong connection to both Fia, and the story told.

This book was born from her lifelong love of reading and the inspiration taken from reading similar memoirs. She hopes to share in the tradition of giving voice to the voiceless and bringing darkness into the light.