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Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl is an African American writer and editor best known for the first multiple award-winning New Suns anthology and for their 2016 Nebula finalist novel Everfair. In 2019 they received the Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award for distinguished service to the genre. Prior to putting together New Suns, they edited and co-edited WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity; Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia Butler Scholars; Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler; and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Shawl lives in Seattle, where they take frequent walks with their cat.

Books by Nisi Shawl

New Suns 2

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

edited by Nisi Shawl
by (author) Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell & Jaymee Goh
foreword by Walter Mosley
afterword by Grace Dillon

Inviting Interruptions

Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century

edited by Cristina Bacchilega & Jennifer Orme
contributions by Su Blackwell, Shary Boyle, Susanna Clarke, Emma Donoghue, Rosario Ferré, Nalo Hopkinson, Anne Kamiya, David Kaplan, Maya Kern, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, Kelly Link, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Rosalind Hyatt Orme, Diriye Osman, Joellyn Rock, Sofia Samatar, Veronica Schanoes, Nisi Shawl, Shaun Tan, Danielle Wood & Miwa Yanagi

New Suns

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

edited by Nisi Shawl
by (author) Rebecca Roanhorse, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Darcie Little Badger, Tobias S. Buckell, Minsoo Kang, Jaymee Goh, Indrapramit Das, E. Lily Yu, Karin Lowachee, Kathleen Alcalá, Steven Barnes, Chinelo Onwual, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yáñez, Anil Menon, Andrea Hairston & Hiromi Goto
foreword by LeVar Burton

The Sum of Us

Tales of the Bonded and Bound

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Juliet Marillier, Brenda Cooper, Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex Shvartsman, Kate Story, Karina Sumner-Smith, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, James Van Pelt, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Edward Willett, Christie Yant & Caroline M. Yoachim
introduction by Dominik Parisien

The Sum of Us

Tales of the Bonded and Bound

edited by Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law
by (author) Juliet Marillier, Brenda Cooper, Colleen Anderson, Charlotte Ashley, Ian Creasey, A.M. Dellamonica, Bev Geddes, Claire Humphrey, Sandra Kasturi, Tyler Keevil, Matt Moore, Heather Osborne, Nisi Shawl, Alex Shvartsman, Kate Story, Karina Sumner-Smith, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, James Van Pelt, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Edward Willett, Christie Yant & Caroline M. Yoachim
introduction by Dominik Parisien