Maw Shein Win's full-length poetry collection Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) is forthcoming in Fall 2024. Her collection Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco, and was the poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA from 2016-2018. Read more about her here: mawsheinwin.com
Maw will read Thistles, talk about writing and will answer questions at AEF's Poetry Slam on Saturday, March 22, 2025 from 2 - 4 PM.