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Maw Shein Win

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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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  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. ^ a b 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.