Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on Pain & Embodiment

Jesse Mann

“The text is the most successful embodiment. That is where I have succeeded. That text could not have happened if I didn’t go on this search, and if I wasn’t present in all that vulnerability.”

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two nonfiction titles and three novels, and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her new book, The Freezer Door, is one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and received rave reviews in the New York Times and the Washington Post.