Maw Shein Win-Cedar Herald Index

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. Her works include Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020), Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems (Manic D Press, 2018) and the chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press, 2016). 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. Win previously worked with Wilson on a broadside project entitled Broadside Attractions/Vanquished Terrains in 2012, and as an organizer for Capitalism is over! If you want it! She is a member of The Writers Grotto and is on the board of Oakland PEN.