
Nisi Shawl
Author · 17 books
Nisi Shawl is a founder of the diversity-in-speculative-fiction nonprofit the Carl Brandon Society and serves on the Board of Directors of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop. Their story collection Filter House was a winner of the 2009 Tiptree/Otherwise Award, and their debut novel, Everfair, was a 2016 Nebula finalist. Shawl edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013). They coedited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013).
Series
Books

Cyber World
Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow
2016

Nightmare Magazine 49
October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
2016

Adventures in Bodily Autonomy
Exploring Reproductive Rights in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror
2023

The Mighty Phin
2016

Talk like a Man
2019

Dark Matter
A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
2000

The Water Museum
2019

Everfair
2016

Speculation
2023

2043… a Merman I Should Turn to Be
2021

Brave New Love
15 Dystopian Tales of Desire
2012

Filter House
2008

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
2015

Sun River
2023

Kinning
2024

Our Fruiting Bodies
2022

More than Nothing
2017