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).