Maw Shein Win

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 Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems (Manic D Press, 2018) and the chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press, 2016).[2]A full-length poetry collection will be published by Omnidawn in 2020. Along with Kathleen Munnelly, Win was also the cofounder of Comet Magazine.[3] 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,[3] and as an organizer for Capitalism is over! If you want it![5] She is a member of The Writers Grotto and is on the board of Oakland PEN.

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References
  1. Radin, Rick (17 August 2016). "El Cerrito names first poet laureate". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. Roderick, David (August 4, 2017). "State Lines: Maw Shein Win's 'Score'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  3. Tudor, Silke (4 April 2012). "Analog Rules". SF Weekly. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  4. "Flower Interruption". Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  5. "About Capitalism is over! If you want it!". capitalismisover.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.


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