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Author Biography

Nisi Shawl’s stories of speculative fiction, which have appeared in
The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror
(edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant),
Asimov’s SF Magazine,
and the
Dark Matter
anthologies, have been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon, Gaylactic Spectrum, and Parallax awards. Her reviews and essays have appeared regularly in the
Seattle Times
since the turn of the millennium. She is the co-editor of
Strange Matings: Octavia Butler, Science Fiction and Feminism
(forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press) and the co-author of
Writing the Other,
a guide to developing characters of varying racial, ethnic, and sexual backgrounds.

She serves on the boards of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and the Carl Brandon Society and lives in Seattle.

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