Emily Midorikawa’s debut novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing, will be published by Manilla Press in July 2026.
She 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).
Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has appeared in publications including the Daily Telegraph, TIME, The Times (of London) and the Washington Post.
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