[close] Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is an insomniac with dreams. She is the author of two novels, So Many Ways to Sleep Badly (City Lights, October 2008) and Pulling Taffy (Suspect Thoughts 2003). Mattilda is the editor of four nonfiction anthologies, most recently Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (Seal 2007) and an expanded second edition of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull 2008).

Mattilda is also the editor of Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2004) and Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000). She is currently at work on a new anthology, tentatively titled Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification and the Desire to Conform.

Mattilda’s writing appears in a variety of publications, including the San Francisco Bay Guardian, AlterNet, Bitch, Utne Reader, Bookslut, make/shift (where she is the reviews editor, and writes a column), and Maximumrocknroll (where she writes a column).

You can find her homepage at mattildabernsteinsycamore.com, and she blogs at nobodypasses.blogspot.com.

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