short stories, including recent homages to pioneering black/queer sf novelists: Samuel R. Delany, in the collection, Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015), co-edited with Bill Campbell; and to Octavia E. Butler, in the collection, Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2015), co-edited by Rebecca J. Holden. Shawl's anthology work has been part of their longtime participation within both the feminist and the African-American sf writing communities, evidenced in their editing of WisCon Chronicles Vol. 5: Writing and Racial Identity (2011, generated from America's most venerable feminist sf convention); as well as in their stories' publication within women sf writers' literary experiments, such as Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies (2006, by feminist sf publisher Aqueduct Press) and within African-American speculative fiction collections, notably the groundbreaking Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (2000). Dark Matter spawned two follow-up entries, including 2022's Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. Personal life and influences Shawl was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. They started attending the Residential College of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts in 1971 at the age of 16, but did not graduate. They live in Seattle, Washington, where they review books for the Seattle Times as a freelance contributor. Shawl is bisexual and uses they/them pronouns. They stated in 2018 that they increasingly identify as genderfluid. Among those who have influenced their work, they have named writers Colette, Monique Wittig, and Raymond Chandler; as well as speculative fiction authors Gwyneth Jones, Suzy McKee Charnas, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Howard Waldrop, and Eileen Gunn. Select bibliography Fiction "I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer," Semiotext(e) SF, New York, NY: Columbia University, April 1989, "The Rainses'," Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1995 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "The Pragmatical Princess," Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1999 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "At the Huts of Ajala," Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, New York, : Warner Books, July 2000 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "Shiomah's Land," Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 2001 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "Vapors," Wet: More Aqua Erotica, Mary Anne Mohanraj (editor), Three Rivers Press, NY, NY. "The Beads of Ku," Rosebud Magazine, Issue 23, April 2002 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "Momi Watsu," Strange Horizons (website) August 2003 (appeared in FILTER HOUSE) "Deep End," So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial