Sylvie Green

USIndoor Publications Manager Sylvie Green believes that everyone in the world should do two things: read and exercise. Reading, according to Sylvie, doesn't necessarily need to include the dense texts she read in route to an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University. After all, theory can be bad for fiction writers like her. She prefers to read and write short stories, essays, and plays. When she gets too analytical, she hits the gym.

Exercising, however, doesn't necessarily need to be in a gym. Hiking through a canyon (this happened more often when she lived in Southern California), walking on the beach (these days, it's Virginia Beach), and getting down to and up from the floor to play with her daughter, Ida, and twins, Mira and Elias, all keep her in shape.

In addition to managing USIndoor's publications, Sylvie works part-time as a professor of writing and part-time as a personal trainer and group exercise instructor. For Sylvie, becoming physically fit is, like writing, a process. "I was closer to 200 pounds when I graduated from high school-when I spent most of my time sitting on the couch eating junk food-than I was at any time during either of my pregnancies, and I want to teach people about physical fitness. I want my clients to be able to walk out into their front yards and bend down to pick up their newspapers without their backs going out. From there, they can go anywhere."

Sylvie has been a regular contributor to GO Indoor for a number of years. Not long after the birth of her twins, she took some time away from the magazine. Now she's back, as a writer and editor.