Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is 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.

Her new novel, Sketchtasy, is just out—Sarah Schulman says, “If Sketchtasy doesn't become a classic, we are doomed.”

For her current tour schedule, click here.

She was interviewed a second time and that interview can be heard here.