Nisi Shawl

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Nisi Shawl (2009)

Denise Angela Shawl (born 1955 in Kalamazoo , Michigan ) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

Life

Shawl grew up in the Midwest . At 16 she went to the Residential College of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , however, their studies broke off without a degree. She then worked in various jobs, wrote on the side and published a first short story I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer in 1989 in the anthology Semiotext (e) SF edited by Rudy Rucker , Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson .

In 1992, on a recommendation from Bruce Sterling , Shawl attended the Clarion West Writers' Workshop , an experience that marked a turning point for her: "In six weeks I learned what six years at university had not been able to teach me." As a result, she established herself as an author of SF short stories. By 2018 almost 60 of her short stories had been published, some of which were collected in Filter House (2008), for which she received the James Tiptree, Jr. Award . Another collection, Something More and More , appeared in 2011.

In 2016, the novel Everfair, a utopian alternative world story , appeared in which, supported by an early takeover of steam technology and with the help of the English Fabian Society, a progressive and liberal state emerged in the Congo Basin .

Shawl has made a name for herself above all as an author who, in essays and anthologies, advocates more appropriate reflection on questions and problems of cultural diversity, especially in connection with gender diversity, feminism , sexual orientation , colonialism , racial discrimination and social justice . In this context, mention should be made of the collection of essays Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (2005) , co-authored with Cynthia Ward , and the anthologies Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015, with Bill Campbell).

Shawl is divorced and lives in Seattle .

bibliography

novel
  • Everfair (2016)
Collections
  • Filter House (2008)
  • Something More and More (2011)
Short stories
  • I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer (1989)
  • The Rainses' (1995)
  • Down in the Flood (1996)
  • The Pragmatical Princess (1999)
  • At the Huts of Ajala (2000)
  • Shiomah's Land (2001)
  • How to Give a Dog a Name Without Owning It (2001)
  • The Beads of Ku (2002)
  • The Tawny Bitch (2003)
  • Momi watu (2003)
  • Maggies (2004)
  • Deep End (2004)
  • Wallamelon (2005)
  • Wonder-Worker-of-the-World (2005)
  • Cruel Sistah (2005)
  • Little Horses (2007)
  • The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin (2007)
  • But She's Only a Dream (2007)
  • Women of the Doll (2007)
  • To the Moment (2007)
  • Bird Day (2008)
  • The Water Museum (2008)
  • Dynamo Hum (2008)
  • Good boy (2008)
  • Pataki (2011)
  • Something More (2011)
  • Just Between Us (2011)
  • The Return of Chérie (2011)
  • Honorary Earthling (2011)
  • Beyond the Lighthouse (2011)
  • Otherwise (2012)
  • In Blood and Song (2012, with Michael Ehart)
  • Salt on the Dance Floor (2012)
  • The Five Petals of Thought (2013)
  • In Colors Everywhere (2013)
  • Lupine (2013)
  • White Dawn (2014)
  • Promised (2014)
  • Street Worm (2014)
  • A Beautiful Stream (2015)
  • Walk Like a Man (2015)
  • Jamaica Ginger (2015, with Nalo Hopkinson)
  • Luisah's Church (2016)
  • Vulcanization (2016)
  • An Awfully Big Adventure (2016)
  • Lazzrus (2016)
  • The Mighty Phin (2016)
  • Like the Deadly Hands (2016)
  • Queen of Dirt (2017)
  • More Than Nothing (2017)
  • Sun River (2017)
  • The Colors of Money (2017)
  • Sunshine of Your Love (2017)
  • Evens (2017)
  • The Best Friend We Never Had (2018)
  • She Gates (2018)
  • The Things I Miss the Most (2018)
  • Living Proof (2018)
Anthologies (as editor)
  • Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013)
  • Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013, with Rebecca J. Holden)
  • Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015, with Bill Campbell)
  • People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination (2017)
Non-fiction
  • Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (2005, with Cynthia Ward)
  • The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.5: Writing and Racial Identity (2011)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nisi Shawl - Autobiography , accessed November 29, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Shawl, Nisi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shawl, Denise Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer of science fiction and fantasy
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalamazoo , Michigan