# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nisi-shawl
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:20.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nisi-shawl"
name: "Nisi Shawl"
slug: "nisi-shawl"
description: "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, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nisi_Shawl_8125973.jpg?width=1200"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.212132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nisishawl"
    handle:    "nisishawl"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/nisi.shawl"
    handle:    "nisi.shawl"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://nisishawl.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6bbe9e3a-789e-48f2-aade-eb94151a8a36"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "نسی شال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisi_Shawl"
    title: "Nisi Shawl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7040818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump