Maw Shein Win's latest full-length poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn, 2024) which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Her previous full-length collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) was longlisted for the PEN America 2021 Open Book Award, shortlisted for the Golden Poppy Award for Poetry, and nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA, the recipient of the 2025 Berkeley Poetry Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2025 Nomadic/SF Foundation Literary Award for Non-fiction. Win's previous collections include Invisible Gifts (Manic D Press) and two chapbooks, Score and Bone (Black Lawrence Press/Nomadic Press) and Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects). Win often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and other writers, and her Process Note Series features poets on their process. She teaches poetry in the MFA Programs at the University of San Francisco and Saint Mary’s College of California. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a literary community. mawsheinwin.com