About

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 survival against capitalism.

Her books are Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing 2024) and In Between (Pleiades 2017) and her poetry comix are published in Poetry Northwest, CrayfishMag, PRISM International, Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, and other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies with San Francisco Center for the Book, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Loghaven, Storyknife, Black Earth Institute, Mineral School, and The Arctic Circle.

Mahato received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and teaches comix and poetry at all levels. She currently lives in New York City.

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