Nisi Shawl's first novel, Everfair, wasa finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award. In 2009 their Aqueduct storycollection Filter House received the Otherwise Award. They havepublished three other short fiction collections--Something More andMore (Aqueduct, 2010), A Primer to Nisi Shawl (Dark Moon Books,2017), and Talk Like a Man (PM Press, 2019). Shawl is, with CynthiaWard, the author of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach(Aqueduct, 2005), and has edited numerous anthologies, including theWorld Fantasy Award-winning New Suns: Speculative Fiction by Peopleof 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. Delanywith Bill Campbell (Rosarium, 2015).
“Step back, Kerouac! I loved this fabulist reckoning with the legacy of the Beats from the perspective of an overlooked member of their circle: a singular black writer who is no one’s muse. Shawl’s generous gifts bring ‘Marlene Todd,’ a.k.a. ‘Mardou Fox,’ to complex vibrancy in a brilliant act of literary comeuppance.” —Alaya Dawn Johnson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Trouble the Saints