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. 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 Paris Review, TIME, and the Washington Post.