Mita Mahato
ARCTIC PLAY forthcoming 2024
Poetry Comic Drama
Mita Mahato is the artist and author of Arctic Play, forthcoming from The 3rd Thing in 2024. Her poetry comics have appeared in places including Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades and listed in The Best American Comics of 2019. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Storyknife, Black Earth Institute, Mineral School, and The Arctic Circle. She lives in Seattle.
Arctic Play is a series of poetic experiments, a comic book, an expedition log, a dirge, a drama. Mapping an Arctic imaginary onto a shifting stage of woven and layered papers, the book conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition with which to navigate climate crisis and its sorrows.
Arctic Play will be distributed to booksellers and the academic market through Small Press Distribution.
