About

Emily Midorikawa is the author of Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, and the coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf (written with Emma Claire Sweeney, and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood).

Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has appeared in publications including The Millions, the Paris Review and TIME, and the i Newspaper, The Times (of London) and the Washington Post. Until recently, she taught on the writing programme at New York University London.