About

Emily Midorikawa’s debut novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing, will be published by Manilla Press in July 2026.

Emily is also the author of the group biographies Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, and A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf (cowritten with Emma Claire Sweeney).

A winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Emily’s journalism has appeared in publications including the Daily Telegraph, TIME, The Times (of London) and the Washington Post.