Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer and journalist, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (she was 16 in 1971). She is best known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Shawl is the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction, a book derived from the authors' workshop of the same name, in which participants explore techniques to help them write credible characters outside ...
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Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer and journalist, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (she was 16 in 1971). She is best known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Shawl is the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction, a book derived from the authors' workshop of the same name, in which participants explore techniques to help them write credible characters outside their own cultural experience. Her short stories have appeared in Asimov's SF Magazine, the Infinite Matrix, Strange Horizons, Semiotext(e) and numerous other magazines and anthologies.
Among the writers who influence her work, she has named Colette and Raymond Chandler.
Shawl is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and a 1992 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. She is a board member of Clarion West and one of the founders of the Carl Brandon Society. Her stories have been shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon Award,...
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