Maw Shein Win Explained

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. In 2017 she collaborated with artist Megan Wilson on the public art installation Flower Interruption for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.[4] Win previously worked with Wilson on a broadside project entitled Broadside Attractions/Vanquished Terrains in 2012,[5] 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]

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  1. News: Radin . Rick . El Cerrito names first poet laureate . 12 October 2019 . San Jose Mercury News . 17 August 2016.
  2. News: Sullivan . Denise . The spiritual tradition of storage vessels with poet Maw Shein Win . 29 June 2021 . San Francisco Chronicle Date Book . 19 October 2020.
  3. News: Roderick . David . State Lines: Maw Shein Win's 'Score' . 12 October 2019 . San Francisco Chronicle . August 4, 2017.
  4. Web site: Flower Interruption . Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . 13 October 2019.
  5. News: Tudor . Silke . Analog Rules . 14 October 2019 . SF Weekly . 4 April 2012.
  6. Web site: About Capitalism is over! If you want it! . capitalismisover.com . 14 October 2019.
  7. Web site: Maw Shein Win . The Oakland Artists Project . 29 June 2021.

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