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 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.

[6] She is a member of The Writers Grotto and is on the board of Oakland PEN.