Join us in celebrating 4 years in print of 128 LIT featuring readings from Tatiana Krasilnikova, M Lin, Matt Reeck, Chelsea Forgenie, Stine An, & Andrew Felsher.
Tatiana Krasilnikova is a poet, scholar, and translator born in Nizhny Novgorod. She emigrated in 2022, following the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. READ LESSHer Russian-language poetry has appeared in DOXA, F-pismo, ROAR, Flagi, galo, post(non)fiction, Vozduh, and elsewhere, and has been translated into English, Italian, and French. In 2026 she is publishing two poetry collections in Russian: While I Was Watering My Lemon Tree (Binadroba, Tbilisi) and Linda(New Arrivals, New York). She is a PhD candidate at Columbia University, where she studies feminist experimental poetry. She translates poetry from Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, and English into Russian. Her academic work includes co-authoring a book on the poetic language of early Pasternak, published in 2021. She also cares for Limoncella, a lemon tree, in an apartment with north-facing windows.
M Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Born and raised in Beijing, she writes in English as her second language; her mother tongue is Mandarin, which she favors in speech. Her first book, The Memory Museum, is published by Graywolf Press in April 2026. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, swamp pink, Joyland, Epiphany, Fence, and Best Debut Short Stories 2023 (Catapult). Her nonfiction can be read in The New York Times, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her translation appears in Harper’s Bazaar China, Words Without Borders, and Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins. M holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Film from New York University. An amateur pianist and a certified yoga teacher, she lives in New York with her partner and two furry children, Lisbon and Rothko.
Matt Reeck is a translator and poet living in Brooklyn. His most recent translations include Abdelkebir Khatibi’s The Wound of the Name, Milan Kundera’s 89 Words, and Paul Guillibert’s Anthropocene Communism.
Chelsea Forgenie was born on the island of Trinidad & Tobago and raised in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. Chelsea is currently working on “For Almost Certain: a memoir of Sin, Sexuality, and Salvation,” a book about sexual experiences in childhood, memory, and the mother-daughter love story, as it intersects with Caribbean identity, and womanhood. Chelsea curated the Trees of Little Caribbean exhibition at Brooklyn Botanic Garden; a celebration of the plants and trees cherished by Caribbean people that spark stories of rebellion, resilience, spirituality and joy. Chelsea is an educator and a ‘25 Creative Non-Fiction MFA program graduate of Hunter College. Her forthcoming memoir is represented by Madeline Ticknor of Janklow and Nesbit.
Stine An (안수연) is a Korean American poet, translator, and performer. Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite (Nightboat, 2026), won the Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her translations include Winter Night Rabbit Worries (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026) and Today’s Morning Vocabulary (Zephyr Press, 2025), both by Yoo Heekyung, and Comet and Star: A Story of Cosmic Friendship, written by the musician and composer Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (Enchanted Lion Books, 2024). A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship and The Poetry Project’s Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship, An lives in Queens, New York.
Andrew Felsher’s writing has appeared in EPOCH, São Paulo Review, Heavy Feather Review, Fiction Writers Review, among other publications. He is the author of Notes from a Prison Cell (Bottlecap Press, 2023), which has been translated into Portuguese, and Child Boss (128 LIT, 2026). He lives in New York City.