Author · born 1955
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl (born 1955) is an American writer. Born in Kalamazoo.
Our catalogue lists 1 book by Nisi Shawl, mostly steampunk. The most-read is Everfair (2016).
Books by Nisi Shawl
Everfair
Nisi Shawl
Awards
- ✦Otherwise Award 2016 — Overall, Everfair (nominee)
- 🏆Otherwise Award 2008 — Overall, Filter House (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 2017 — Best Novel, Everfair (nominee)
- 🏆World Fantasy Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, New Suns (winner)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2009 — Best Collection, Filter House (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 2009 — Best Novella, Good Boy (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2025 — Best Science Fiction Novel, Kinning (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2024 — Best Anthology, New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2023 — Best Collection, Our Fruiting Bodies (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2022 — Best Novelette, I Being Young and Foolish (nominee)
- 🏆Locus Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, New Suns (winner)
- ✦Locus Awards 2018 — Best Short Story, Queen of Dirt (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best First Novel, Everfair (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best Short Story, Vulcanization (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Anthology, Stories for Chip (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 2016 — Best Novelette, Jamaica Ginger (nominee)
- 🏆British Fantasy Awards 2020 — Best Anthology, New Suns (winner)
- 🏆Ignyte Awards 2020 — Best Anthology/Collected Works, New Suns (winner)
Biography
Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors. *--Wikipedia* *Photo Attribution:* K Tempest Bradford, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons