Nisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist and Tiptree Honor novel, Everfair, and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection, Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, the standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Analog and Asimov’s magazines and many others. With Bill Campbell she co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany. Shawl is a Clarion West board member and a founder of the Carl Brandon Society.