**Nisi Shawl **'s first novel,*Everfair *, was

**Nisi Shawl **'s first novel,*Everfair *, was

a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award. In 2009 their Aqueduct story

collection *Filter House * received the Otherwise Award. They have

published three other short fiction collections--***Something More and

More** *(Aqueduct, 2010),*A Primer to Nisi Shawl *(Dark Moon Books,

2017), and*Talk Like a Man *(PM Press, 2019). Shawl is, with Cynthia

Ward, the author of*Writing the Other: A Practical Approach *(Aqueduct, 2005), and has edited numerous anthologies, including the

World Fantasy Award-winning***New Suns: Speculative Fiction by People

of Color** *(Solaris, 2019),***Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism,

African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler** *with Rebecca Holden

(Aqueduct, 2013), and*Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany *

with Bill Campbell (Rosarium, 2015).