Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of Sketchtasy, out in October 2018. She’s the award-winning author of a memoir and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award, and her previous title, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Sycamore’s novels include So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and Pulling Taffy, and her anthologies include Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity and That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.

Mattilda will be on tour for her new novel, Sketchtasy from October 2018 to March 2019. Tour details will be available soon, at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com.

Sycamore writes for a wide variety of publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, BOMB, the Baffler, Truthout, Bitch, Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. She recently finished a book on desire and its impossibility called The Freezer Door, and is currently working on a book about her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, a visual artist, tentatively titled Touching the Art. She lives in Seattle, where she likes the rain almost as much as the sun.