Matilda Lin Berke grew up in Pasadena, California. She graduated cum laude from Wellesley College with B.A. Honors in English.

Her writing has previously appeared in Forever Magazine, The Magazine Antiques, Hobart, Adroit, and The Mars Review of Books, and is forthcoming in dream boy book club, Compact, and Expat Press. She’s received a Pushcart nomination and her poetry has been selected for inclusion in Plain China: National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing. 

You can find her on Instagram @matilda.berke and on Twitter @unmeritedsteak.