We invited Award Wining Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Nisi Shawl for an amazing conversation on their journey, writings, worldbuilding, meeting Octavia Butler and many more!
Nisi Shawl (they/them) 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. The 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).
Website: nisishawl.com
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