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Nisi Shawl

Nisi Shawl

Birth place: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

90 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 1995 144 Short Fiction The Rainses' Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995
January 1999 84 Short Fiction The Pragmatical Princess Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1999
March 2001 56 Short Fiction Shiomah's Land Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2001
April 2002 67 Short Fiction The Beads of Ku Rosebud #23, 2002
August 2003 Short Fiction Momi Watu Strange Horizons, 18 August 2003
October 2004 Editor Beyond Magazine #1, 2004 Beyond Magazine #1, 2004
October 2004 Essay Editorial: It's Such an Obvious Thing Beyond Magazine #1, 2004
May 2005 Editor Beyond Magazine #2, 2005 Beyond Magazine #2, 2005
May 2005 Essay Editorial: Infodump Beyond Magazine #2, 2005
May 2005 82 Short Fiction Wallamelon Aeon Three
May 2005 |1 Short Fiction Wonder-Worker-of-the-World Reflection's Edge, May 2005
October 2005 178 Short Fiction Cruel Sistah Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2005
2006 9 Essay Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006: In Memoriam Foundation, #97 Summer 2006
May 2006 13 Essay Colorful Stories: Fantastic Fiction by African Descended Authors Vector 247
June 2006 Review Writing the Other Strange Horizons, 26 June 2006
January 2007 Short Fiction The Snooted One: The Historicity of Origin Farrago's Wainscot, January 2007
June 2007 135 Short Fiction Women of the Doll GUD Issue 1 - Autumn 2007
October 2007 |6 Interview No Gatekeepers: An Interview with Nisi Shawl Reflection's Edge, October 2007
November 2007 |4 Short Fiction To the Moment Reflection's Edge, November 2007
October 2008 Review Filter House Strange Horizons, 20 October 2008
May 2009 Short Fiction Down in the Flood PodCastle, Miniature 31
April 2011 Interview An Interview with Nisi Shawl Strange Horizons, 4 April 2011
April 2011 Serial Pataki (Part 1 of 2) Strange Horizons, 4 April 2011
April 2011 Serial Pataki (Part 2 of 2) Strange Horizons, 11 April 2011
April 2011 Essay Race, Again, Still Strange Horizons, 4 April 2011
June 2011 Poem Transbluency: An Antiprojection Chant Stone Telling, June 2011
August 2011 Interview Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl Fantasy Magazine, August 2011
September 2011 91 Short Fiction Just Between Us Phantom Drift, #1, Fall 2011
December 2011 Short Fiction Black Betty Crossed Genres Magazine #36, December 2011
December 2011 Short Fiction Honorary Earthling Expanded Horizons, Issue 33, December 2011
2013 315 Review AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers Paradoxa, Number 25, 2013: Africa SF
March 2014 Essay Reviewing the Other: Like Dancing about Architecture Strange Horizons, 24 March 2014
May 2014 |21 Interview Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl Lightspeed, May 2014
May 2014 |5 Short Fiction Deep End Lightspeed, May 2014
June 2014 395 Essay Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard Lightspeed, June 2014
June 2015 126 Short Fiction Walk Like a Man Bahamut, #1
July 2015 Short Fiction At the Huts of Ajala See the Elephant, Issue One
November 2015 6 Short Fiction How to Give a Dog a Name Without Owning It Recompose, #0, November 2015
November 2015 75 Review Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany Interzone, November-December 2015
November 2015 199 Review Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2015
December 2015 |2 Essay I.G.Y. Shattered Prism, #1
January 2016 |11 Interview Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl Nightmare Magazine, January 2016
January 2016 11 Review Dark Orbit The Cascadia Subduction Zone, January 2016
January 2016 39 Review Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany Locus, #660 January 2016
January 2016 |2 Short Fiction Vulcanization Nightmare Magazine, January 2016
March 2016 |1 Essay A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, March-April 2016
March 2016 109 Review Stories for Chip Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2016
April 2016 |4 Review Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany Strange Horizons, 18 April 2016
June 2016 |69 Essay The People Men Don't See Lightspeed, June 2016
June 2016 |1 Essay The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto Lightspeed, June 2016
July 2016 |30 Essay Asian SF: The Essential Reading List (2016) Mithila Review, July 2016
July 2016 |7 Essay Our Queer Roundtable Strange Horizons, 25 July 2016
September 2016 14 Review Everfair Locus, #668 September 2016
September 2016 |11 Short Fiction Everfair (excerpt) Lightspeed, September 2016
October 2016 32 Interview A Real Magician Locus, #669 October 2016
October 2016 |25 Interview Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl Nightmare Magazine, October 2016
October 2016 |7 Short Fiction Luisah's Church Dark Discoveries, Fall 2016
November 2016 |3 Short Fiction An Awfully Big Adventure Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November-December 2016
November 2016 |6 Review Everfair Strange Horizons, 14 November 2016
December 2016 30 Short Fiction Like the Deadly Hands Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2016
2017 |9 Essay A Letter to Octavia Butler—Nisi Shawl Strange Horizons, Fund Drive Special 2017
2017 Editor People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
January 2017 198 Review Everfair Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2017
February 2017 |3 Interview Interiew with Author Nisi Shawl Apex Magazine, February 2017
February 2017 |2 Short Fiction Queen of Dirt Apex Magazine, February 2017
March 2017 Short Fiction More Than Nothing Tor.com, March 8, 2017
January 2018 Short Fiction The Best Friend We Never Had Apex Magazine, January 2018
February 2018 |4 Short Fiction Jamaica Ginger Lightspeed, February 2018
September 2018 26 Essay My Darling, My Jets of Semen: Nisi Shawl Goes on about Gardner Dozois The New York Review of Science Fiction, September 2018
September 2018 |1 Short Fiction The Things I Miss the Most Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2018
December 2018 72 Short Fiction The Third Petal Wired, January 2019
March 2019 |12.3 Review New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Lightspeed, March 2019
April 2019 |3 Review New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Strange Horizons, 8 April 2019
May 2019 79 Review New Suns Interzone, May-June 2019
September 2019 |2 Interview In Technicolor: A Roundtable on the Future of Diversity in Speculative Fiction Strange Horizons, 23 September 2019
April 2020 |4 Review Talk Like a Man Plus Women of the Doll Plus An Awfully Big Adventure and Much More Strange Horizons, 20 April 2020
July 2021 |11 Essay Through a Thousand Eyes Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2021
August 2021 |2.5 Essay Writing While Disabled (Strange Horizons, 23 August 2021) Strange Horizons, 23 August 2021
December 2021 Short Fiction Maggies Black Cat Weekly, #16
May 2022 Short Fiction In Blood and Song Black Cat Weekly, #38
July 2022 Short Fiction Lazzrus Black Cat Weekly, #47
November 2022 |10 Interview The Poetry of Prose: A Conversation with Nisi Shawl Clarkesworld, November 2022
January 2023 64 Interview Bridging Divides in Science, Magic, and Life: Galaxy's Edged Interviews Nisi Shawl Galaxy's Edge, January 2023
January 2023 |4 Review Our Fruiting Bodies Strange Horizons, 9 January 2023
March 2023 |12 Review New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Lightspeed, March 2023
December 2023 Short Fiction Sun River Tor.com, December 6, 2023
May 2024 |15 Interview Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl Lightspeed, May 2024
May 2024 |4 Short Fiction Over a Long Time Ago Lightspeed, May 2024
June 2024 Short Fiction The Colors of Money Reactor, June 26, 2024
June 2025 Short Fiction Slippernet Reactor, June 4, 2025

According to the editor's note in the collection Talk Like a Man plus Women of the Doll plus An Awfully Big Adventure and much more the author prefers to go by 'they/them' pronouns.
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