Maw Shein Win's most recent poetry collection is Percussing the Thinking Jar. Her prior collection, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA's Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. Win is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. Her previous collections include Invisible Gifts and two chapbooks, Ruins of a Glittering Palace and Score and Bone. 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 Program at the University of San Francisco. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a new literary community.