- Author: Nisi Shawl Author Record # 11309
- Birthplace: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Birthdate: 1955
- Language: English
- Webpages: nisishawl.com, SFWA, Wikipedia-EN
- Author Tags: science fiction (4), lesbian (2), steampunk (2), folktale-style (1), twin souls (1), interspecies sex (1), genetic engineering (1), vampires (1), horror (1), alternate history (1), bees (1), cloning (1), satire (1), space station (1), for-profit prisons (1), Read18 (1)
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Novels
- Everfair (2016)
- Filter House (2008)
- Something More and More (2011)
- Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013)
- Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015) with Bill Campbell (I)
- Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (2005) with Cynthia Ward
- The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.5: Writing and Racial Identity (2011)
- Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013) with Rebecca J. Holden
-
The Rainses' (1995)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Raineses' (1995)
- Down in the Flood (1996)
- The Pragmatical Princess (1999)
- At the Huts of Ajala (2000)
- Shiomah's Land (2001)
- The Beads of Ku (2002)
- The Tawny Bitch (2003)
- Momi Watu (2003)
- Maggies (2004)
- Deep End (2004)
- Excerpt from Nisi Shawl's forthcoming novel The Blazing World (2005)
- 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)
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- Pataki (Part 1 of 2) (2011)
- Pataki (Part 2 of 2) (2011)
- Something More (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
- Vulcanization (2016)
- An Awfully Big Adventure (2016)
- Everfair (excerpt) (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)
- Luisah's Church (2018)
-
Beautiful Strangers: Transracial Writing for the Sincere (1999)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Transracial Writing for the Sincere (2005)
- Appropriate Cultural Appropriation (2004)
- Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction (2005) with Cynthia Ward
- Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006: In Memoriam (2006)
- Colorful Stories: Fantastic Fiction by African Descended Authors (2006)
- Solitude and Souls (2010)
- Race, Again, Still (2011)
- Because We Are All So Royal (2011)
- How to Save the World, One Story at a Time (2011)
- Written on the Water (2011)
- Annunciation (Introduction, Ancient, Ancient) (2012)
- What I Want: WisCon 35 Guest of Honor Speech (2012)
- Here He Is (2012)
- Excerpt 1 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler" (2013)
- Excerpt 2 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler" (2013)
- Excerpt 3 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler" (2013)
- Excerpt 4 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler" (2013)
- Excerpt 5 from "A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler" (2013)
- Strange Matings and Their Progeny: A Legacy of Conversations, Thoughts, Writings, and Actions (2013) with Rebecca J. Holden
- The Third Parable (2013)
- Reviewing the Other: Like Dancing about Architecture (2014)
- Screaming Together: Making Women's Voices Heard (2014)
- Foreword (Ruins Excavation) (2015)
- I.G.Y. (2015)
- A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction (2016)
- The People Men Don't See (2016)
- The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Manifesto (2016) with Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim and Grace L. Dillon and Sunil Patel
- Across the Lies of Space and Time (2016)
- Asian SF: The Essential Reading List (2016) (2016) with Jaymee Goh and Indrapramit Das and Niall Harrison and Anil Menon [only as by Anil Menon and Indra Das and Jaymee Goh and Niall Harrison and Nisi Shawl]
- Our Queer Roundtable (2016) with Vanessa Rose Phin and Rose Fox and Cynthia Ward and Anna Anthropy and Adrienne J. Odasso [only as by A. J. Odasso and Anna Anthropy and Cynthia Ward and Nisi Shawl and Rose Fox and Vanessa Rose Phin]
-
My One-and-Only Octavia (2017)
also appeared as:
- Variant: A Letter to Octavia Butler—Nisi Shawl (2017)
- Dark Orbit (2016) by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler (2004) with Octavia E. Butler
- Hiromi Goto: Interviewed by Nisi Shawl (2014) with Hiromi Goto
- A Real Magician (2016) with Nisi Shawl
- No Gatekeepers: An Interview with Nisi Shawl (2007) by Sharon Dodge
- An Interview with Nisi Shawl (2011) by JoSelle Vanderhooft
- Interview with Nisi Shawl (2011) by Eileen Gunn
- Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl (2011) by Wendy N. Wagner
- Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl (2014) by Robyn Lupo
- Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl (2016) by Sandra M. Odell
- A Real Magician (2016) by Nisi Shawl
- Author Spotlight: Nisi Shawl (2016) by Christian A. Coleman
- Interiew with Author Nisi Shawl (2017) by Andrea Johnson