Emily Midorikawa

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.

The “Mystic Inklings” and Savvy Business Acumen of Victoria Woodhull

Emily Midorikawa on the First Woman to Run for President,
and How She Built Her Reputation

May 20, 2021 By Emily Midorikawa

How Do You Write a Biography Filled With Unreliable Witnesses?

Emily Midorikawa on the Challenges of Reconstructing Lived Histories

May 12, 2021 By Emily Midorikawa

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