Maw Shein Win

Poet, Spoken Word Artist

El Cerrito, CA
California US
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Author's Bio

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). Her full-length poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) which was long listed for the 2021 PEN America Open Book Award, nominated for a Northern California Book Award for Poetry, and short listed for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry for 2021. She often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers and was a Spring 2021 ARC Poetry Fellow at UC Berkeley. mawsheinwin.com

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020)
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Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press, 2018)
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Score and Bone (Nomadic Press, 2016)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Oct 28, 2021