Emily Midorikawa

Emily Midorikawa’s debut novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing, is published by Manilla Press. Set in the Japanese city of Osaka in the early 2000s, it tells the story of two young women – Anna and Loll, an English language teacher and a nightclub hostess – and what happens when one of them suddenly disappears.

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 the The Times, the Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph and TIME. She has lived in Japan and the UK, and is currently based in Washington DC.

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