Thirty Eight

September 2024

poetry

Ginger Ayla
Ellie Black
Sam Bailey
Havilah Barnett
Benjamin Bartu
Jai Hamid Bashir
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
Emma De Lisle
Tobi Kassim
James King
Renée Lepreau
Angelo Mao
Meredith MacLeod Davidson
Naomi Shuyama-Gómez
Alyssandra Tobin

fiction

Ross Hargreaves
Hannah Ratner
Emily Stokes

essays

Dure Ahmed
Danielle Shorr

Mita Mahato is a comix artist and poet who assembles her panels and pages with cut and collaged papers. Her work joins fragments of used and discarded materials—old newspapers, obsolete maps, junk mail, packaging scraps—in poetic experiments that dramatize entangled processes of death and renewal, specifically within the context of ecosystemic loss under capitalism.

Her poetry comix 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. Her next book, Arctic Play, is forthcoming in October 2024 from The 3rd Thing. Her work has been supported by Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Loghaven, Storyknife, Black Earth Institute, Mineral School, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Arctic Circle.

Her mother was Prem, born in Bihar. Her father was Basanta, born in Bengal. A career educator, she teaches comics and poetry at all levels. She currently lives in Seattle.