Before teaching at Pacific, she was an assistant professor at Gonzaga University in creative writing and literature for three years. In 2008, Mitra spent a year in India on a Fulbright grant in creative writing. Her fiction is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review (Summer 2015), Southwest Review, Arts and Letters, and Slush Pile and has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Best New American Voices, Ontario Review, Orchid, Event, Fourteen Hills, Torpedo, and Confrontation.