An Otherworldly Interview with Author Nisi Shawl | Episode 19

<p>This week Amber and Ben sat down with Author Nisi Shawl to talk about their most recent book &quot;Talk Like A Man,&quot; and their editing work for the 2020 World Fantasy award winning collection &quot;New Suns&quot;.<br /> Nisi Shawl’s essay &quot;Crash Course in Science Fiction&quot; has been a guide for this podcast, but Nisi has also won an Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree Award) for their short collection &quot;Filter House&quot; and has been a Nebula finalist and Otherwise Honoree for their novel &quot;Everfair,&quot; an alternate history in which the Congo overthrows King Leopold II’s genocidal regime.<br /> Finally, Nisi is an educator and they co-wrote &quot;Writing the Other: A Practice Approach,&quot; now the standard text on diverse character representation in the imaginative genres.</p>