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Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the author, most recently, of Terry Dactyl (Coffee House Press 2025; UK edition Cipher Press), described by the New York Times Book Review as “a remarkably grounded look at what it means to be fully alive,” and by a starred review in Publishers Weekly as “a shimmering tale of art, drugs, and friendship spanning from the AIDS crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic.” Terry Dactyl was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and a Big Other Book Award Finalist. Sycamore’s previous title, Touching the Art (Soft Skull 2023), was a Washington State Book Award Finalist in 2024 and a Pacific Northwest Book Award Finalist in 2025. Sycamore’s title before that, The Freezer Door (Semiotext(e) 2020), was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.Browse all performers
