Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, is the author of the novel Pulling Taffy, and the editor of Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth 2000) and Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving (Haworth 2003). His writing has been widely published, in places as diverse as Best American Erotica, Best American Gay Fiction, Women and Performance, and Slingshot. He is an instigator of Gay Shame: the Virus in the System, the radical queer activist group that celebrates resistance by fighting the monster of assimilation. He lives in San Francisco, where he is at work on a new anthology, Resisting Assimilation: Alternatives to the Gay Mainstream, and a second novel.