Sydney is the Co-Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at Grossmont College where she has been teaching creative writing for over ten years. Currently she facilitates a popular poetry-writing workshop. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Sonoma Review, Southern Anthology, two girls review, Hawaii Pacific Review, red, Sunshine/Noir, HOW2: Contemporary Innovative Writing Practices by Women, and Hunger and Thirst.

Sydney believes that most writers need other writers for inspiration, constructive criticism, and camaraderie; she looks forward to working in Inspiration Gallery’s intimate setting with a small group of serious poets.