Mita Mahato is Seattle-based artist and educator working primarily with cut paper and collage within the comics medium. She assembles fragments of used and discarded materials in poetic experiments that dramatize entangled processes.

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.
To accompany the book,  The Arctic Play Portal was created, with readings or arrangements of four poems from the book, as well as invitations to engage Arctic Play from different and intersecting vantages, including Environmental Justice, Comics Studies, History of Science, and Creative Writing. The contributors are writers, artists, teachers, scholars, and community leaders; they offer reflections, prompts, reading lists, and questions to spur critical imagination.