Emily Midorikawa is most recently the author of Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, TIME.com, and elsewhere. She is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and was a runner-up in the SI Leeds Literary Prize and the Yeovil Literary Prize. She teaches at New York University-London.