Maw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet who lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served as the inaugural Poet laureate of El Cerrito, California from 2016 to 2018. [1] Her works include Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020), [2] Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems (Manic D Press, 2018) and the chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press, 2016). [3] Along with Kathleen Munnelly, Win was also the cofounder of Comet Magazine. [4] In 2017 she collaborated with artist Megan Wilson on the public art installation Flower Interruption for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. [5] Win previously worked with Wilson on a broadside project entitled Broadside Attractions/Vanquished Terrains in 2012, [4] and as an organizer for Capitalism is over! If you want it! [6] She is a member of The Writers Grotto and is on the board of Oakland PEN. [7]
