Mita Mahato is a comix artist and poet who assembles her panels and pages with cut and collaged papers. Her poetry comix have appeared in places including PRISM, Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, as well as in the collection In Between, published by Pleiades. She lives in Seattle.

“In Arctic Play, I wanted to see an extractive, unilateral perspective as small by contextualizing it within something multiple and reciprocal, that stutters, and that repositions the reader from moment to moment, and from page to page. I wanted to make a book that would make discomfort feel like a form of care. I wanted to make a book that makes space to feel out the tangles in what place holds. I want readers to hallucinate a red, rocky beach in the meat section at the grocery store and to sustain passionate love for polar bears that are too far away to see.” – MM