Nisi Shawl

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW – NISI SHAWL

When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer and what does it mean to you to be a black writer in this society? I first realized I *could* be a writer in the 1970s, after reading a bunch of feminist SF. I realized if Suzy McKee Charnas got away with saying whatContinue reading “BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW – NISI SHAWL”

BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH SPOTLIGHT #13

TODAY’S BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH SPOTLIGHT IS NISI SHAWL! Nisi Shawl is an American writer who when she was little, I told her middle sister Julie convoluted tales of how she was a mermaid that had come to dwell in the small midwestern town of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This odyssey involved the Saint Lawrence Seaway, severalContinue reading “BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION MONTH SPOTLIGHT #13”