Emily Midorikawa is the author of A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing, a literary suspense novel set in the Japanese city of Osaka in the early 2000s.

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.