birth_place awards nationality ethnicity birth_date genre image article_title name alma_mater
kalamazoo , michigan 2008 james tiptree , jr. award american african-american 1955 speculative fiction nisi shawl.jpg nisi shawl
 nisi shawl residential college , university of michigan , ann arbor
nisi shawl

nisi shawl -lrb- born 1955 -rrb- is an african-american writer and journalist .
she is best known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories .
