Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author, most recently, of Touching the Art, a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, she’s the author of seven books, and the editor of six anthologies, most recently Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis. Sycamore’s new novel, Terry Dactyl, will be published by Cipher Press in the UK and Coffee House Press in the USA in November 2025.