EMILY MIDORIKAWA is the author of A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf, co-written with Emma Claire Sweeney and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood. The book is published by Aurum Press in the UK and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the USA. (Emma and Emily also ran the blog Something Rhymed, which celebrates female literary friendship.) Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice was published by Counteerpoint Press in 2021. Her first novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing, set in neon-lit world of Osaka’s nightlife, is published by Manilla Press (2026).
A graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA (Prose Fiction), Emily has since held positions teaching writing at the University of Cambridge, City University of London and the Open University. She currently teaches at New York University’s London campus.
Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in, among others, Aesthetica, Mslexia and the Good Journal. Her journalism has been published in the likes of the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Paris Review and the Washington Post.
- Areas of expertise: narrative non-fiction, novels, short fiction
- Location: London
- Possible meeting place: British Library
Emily’s website; Emily is also on Twitter and Instagram
