Nisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist and Tiptree Honor novel Everfair, and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 they co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Their stories have appeared in Analog and Asimov's magazines and many other publications. Shawl is a founder of the Carl Brandon Society and a Clarion West board member.