NISI SHAWL is coauthor of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (2005), a founder of the Carl Brandon Society, and a longtime member of Clarion West’s Board of Directors. Her 2008 story collection Filter House won the Tiptree Award. She edits book reviews for Aqueduct Press’s literary quarterly The Cascadia Subduction Zone. Shawl edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013) and WisCon Chronicles 5: Writing and Racial Identity (2011). She co-edited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013) and Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015). Her Belgian Congo steampunk novel Everfair is due out from Tor in Spring 2016.