CE Shue is the author of Bridge of Knots, chosen by Matthew Salesses for the Gold Line Press Fiction Award. She earned her MFA from the University of San Francisco, where she was awarded the Poetry Scholarship, and she has received grants from the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. A Kundiman Fellow, her writing has been published in The Racket, Drunken Boat, Entropy, Washington Square, Sparkle & Blink, Flash Fiction Review, Paragraph, E*Ratio, Spiral Orb, Lumina, Storyscape, The Satirist, flock, Poet As Radio, Switchback, The Collagist, and other journals. She has read at LitCrawl, Quiet Lightning, Kearny Street Workshops, Nomadic Press Get Lit, BeastCrawl, Under the Influence, Lyrics and Dirges, The Racket, The Berkeley Poetry Festival, Beyond Words: Poetry and Jazz and other venues. For many years she was on the board of Bay Area Generations, a literary reading series that paired writers from different generations to read together. She taught the writing workshop, “Writing Our Inner And Outer Landscapes”, at the Sierra College Writing Conference and will teach “Connecting With Your Writing Community Through Your Authentic Voice” in February 2024.
Maw Shein Win’s most recent poetry collection is Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn) which 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. She is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA. She teaches poetry in the MFA Program at the University of San Francisco and was selected as a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree. Win’s Process Note Series features poets and their process. Along with Dawn Angelicca Barcelona and Mary Volmer, she is a co-founder of Maker, Mentor, Muse, a new literary community. Win’s full-length collection Percussing the Thinking Jar (Omnidawn) is forthcoming in 2024. mawsheinwin.com
