Sylvia Mulholland was born and raised in a small town in Canada. After high school, she
attended Ontario College of Art & Design, then the University of Toronto and finally, the
University of Ottawa, where she obtained her law degree.
For many years she practiced law, as a partner in a multi-national Toronto-based firm, then
gave it all up and moved to Los Angeles where she obtained her MFA from American Film
Institute and was awarded the prestigious Sloan Foundation Fellowship for her screenplay Mrs.
Einstein about the physicist, Mileva Maric. She then worked for E! Entertainment as a staff
writer on True Hollywood Story and later, for Fox Filmed Entertainment.
Not making much progress as a screenwriter, Sylvia grit her teeth and returned to that jealous
mistress The Law. She passed the fearsome California Bar exam in 2006, and since then has
practiced intellectual property law (specializing in trademarks and copyright law) with her own
offices in Los Angeles and Toronto and continues to write.
Sylvia was published extensively in Canada’s national Globe & Mail newspaper: a popular series
called The Working Woman, about women who juggle career and family. Her debut novel,
Woman’s Work was published in the UK (Hodder & Stoughton), Canada (General) and Germany
(Goldmann) followed by her second novel, Lingerie Tea. Twenty years later, Sylvia realized that
the messages and women’s stories, conveyed by both early novels, still resonate today and that
not that much has changed for women. Both novels have now been re-written and updated.
A Nanny for Harry is available on Amazon as a Kindle book and in paperback, and Sisters in Law
will be available in October of 2018. She is currently working on a legal thriller, entitled Six
Blade Knife.
As a woman working in the highly competitive field of law, raising two children and pursuing a
writing career, Sylvia knows well the challenges of trying to do it all. In her novels and shorter
pieces, she writes with humor and empathy about women, work, the legal profession, marriage
and family life.
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