Nisi Shawl’s steampunk alternate history Everfair was a 2016 Nebula Award finalist, and their 2008 collection Filter House won a James Tiptree, Jr. Award. In the previous year their stories have appeared on the sites of Slate Magazine and Tor.com, in small press anthologies Clockwork Cairo and Sunvault, and as part of the most recent volume of Harpercollins’s The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series, among other venues. They live in Seattle, taking frequent walks with their mother and their cat.