Celebrate 4 years of 128 LIT in print! Featuring: Tatiana Krasilnikova, M Lin, Matt Reeck, Chelsea Forgenie, Stine An & Andrew Felsher!

Chelsea Forgenie was born on the island of Trinidad & Tobago and raised in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. Her fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in 128 LIT, The Caribbean Writer, and in exhibits in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She is currently working on “For Almost Certain: a memoir of Sin, Sexuality, and Salvation” a book about childhood sexuality and guilt, the impact of generational trauma on the mother-daughter love story, and the consolation of sisterhood. She is an educator, and a fair-weathered singer.

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.

Matt Reeck is a translator, poet, and intellectual dissident (if you can say that in Amerika). A Guggenheim fellow in translation, he translates from Hindi, Urdu, French, and Korean. Forthcoming works include novels by Shumona Sinha and Édouard Glissant, books of poetry by Leeladhar Jagoori and Adnan Kafeel Darwesh, and a travelogue by Qazi Abdul Ghaffar.

Tatiana Krasilnikova is a poet, scholar, and translator born in Nizhny Novgorod and currently based in New York. She emigrated in 2022, following the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. Her Russian-language poetry has appeared in DOXA, F-pismo, ROAR, Flagi, galo, post(non)fiction, Vozduh, and elsewhere, and has been translated into English and Italian. Her debut poetry collection, While I was watering my lemon tree,, is forthcoming from Binadroba in 2026. She is currently 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 and translator living in the US. Born and raised in Beijing, she writes in English as her second language. Her debut short story collection, The Memory Museum, is published by Graywolf Press in April 2026, including stories that have appeared in Ploughshares, Electric Literature, Swamp Pink, Joyland, Epiphany, and Fence. Her nonfiction and translations can be read in The New York Times, The Baffler, Words Without Borders, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (2025), Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung (2026), S_MMER CR_SH (2025), and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite (2026), won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize.