Maw Shein Win

El Cerrito

Maw Shein Win is a poet, editor, and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press). Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. Win is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito, California (2016 - 2018), and her full-length poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020). She often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers. mawsheinwin.com

Projects

  1. Storage Unit for the Spirit House

    Storage Unit for the Spirit House is a full-length poetry collection published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020.

    Literary Arts

  2. Clarion Alley Mural Project: Wall + Response

    A series of curated poetic works celebrating the murals of Clarion Alley to raise awareness about wraphome.org and Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) efforts…

    Literary Arts, Arts & Culture, Street Art

  3. Maker, Mentor, Muse

    Maker, Mentor, Muse was founded in 2022 by Mary Volmer, Maw Shein Win, and Dawn Angelicca Barcelona - we're offering writing workshops and literary salons th…

    Literary Arts

Contributions

  1. Colossus:Home

    Colossus: Home is a collection of Bay Area writers speaking out on the atrocities of the housing crises in Oakland and in support of Moms4housing. Editors: S…

  2. Entering the House through the Window: New Ways to Write the Familiar

    Entering the House through the Window: New Ways to Write the Familiar A 2-day workshop taught by MK Chavez and Maw Shein Win exploring innovative ways of cr…

Skills

  1. Literary Arts

    Focus
    Editing, Event Organizing, Performance & Reading, Teaching, Writing
    Genres
    Experimental Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, Personal Narrative

  2. Music

    Types
    Experimental Music
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