New Writing

Emily Midorikawa is a graduate of UEA’s creative writing MA programme (Prose Fiction 2005). She is the author of Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, published by Counterpoint Press in May 2021. She is also the coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontё, Eliot and Woolf (written with Emma Claire Sweeney and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood), published in 2017. Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has appeared in, among others, the Daily Telegraph, the Paris Review, The Times and the Washington Post. She teaches on the writing programme at New York University London.

photo c: Rosalind Hobley