{"name": "Nisi Shawl", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Nisi Shawl is an African-American writer, editor, and journalist. They are best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real-world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors. *--Wikipedia*\r\n\r\n*Photo Attribution:* K Tempest Bradford, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons"}, "birth_date": "1955", "alternate_names": ["Denise Angela Shawl", "Shawl Nisi"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"isni": "0000000038176352", "wikidata": "Q7040818", "viaf": "36396639", "lc_naf": "n2008075181", "librarything": "shawlnisi"}, "source_records": ["bwb:9781619762244"], "personal_name": "Nisi Shawl", "photos": [13438326], "key": "/authors/OL6619666A", "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-05-16T01:12:41.855905"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-01T00:56:42.869578"}}