Nisi Shawl is an award-winning African American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known for their science fiction and fantasy stories and novels dealing with race, gend...ver maisNisi Shawl is an award-winning African American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known for their science fiction and fantasy stories and novels dealing with race, gender, physical ability, and sexual orientation. Even before Shawl’s steampunk-flavored alternate history of the “Belgian” Congo, Everfair, took the sci-fi world by storm, their short stories had already established them as a cutting-edge Black writer whose politically charged fiction is in the grand feminist tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Joanna Russ. Their Outspoken Authors book is Talk like a Man.ver menos