Please join us for a conversation between Mita Mahato and professor Priti Joshi as they talk about Mita's new book, passion projects, and more!

Book description: Arctic Play is a drama, a dirge, an expedition log, a series of poetic experiments, a comic book. Mapping an Arctic imaginary of beings and landforms onto a shifting stage of woven and layered papers, Mita Mahato conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows. 

Bio: Mita Mahato is the author and artist of Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing, 2024) and the collection In Between(Pleiades, 2017). Her poetry comix have been published in PRISM, Ecotone, Iterant, Shenandoah, Coast/NoCoast, ANMLY, and Drunken Boat, and her practice has been supported by Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Loghaven, Storyknife, Black Earth Institute, Short Run Seattle, Mineral School, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, and The Arctic Circle. She currently lives in Seattle.

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