Karo Ska

is a Bengali-Polish gender-fluid writer living on unceded Tongva land with their black cat and big chihuahua. Their writing focuses on identity, mental health, authenticity, vulnerability and the intersections of trauma and politics. They are the author of gathering grandmothers' bones (DSTL Arts, 2020), loving my salt-drenched bones (World Stage Press, 2022) and are currently working on an epistolary memoir exploring their estrangement from their mother. They are an alumni of DSTL Arts' mentorship program and CLI's Poetry Publishing Program.