Megumi Semitani (born 1992) is a Japanese historical novelist. Born in Osaka, she graduated from Waseda University, where she specialized in theater and film studies with a focus on Kabuki of the Bunka-Bunsei era. She made her debut in 2020 after winning the 11th Yasei Jidai New Writers' Award for "Bakemono Shinju" ("Lovers' Suicide of the Monsters"), which subsequently received both the Japan Historical Novel Writers Association Newcomer Award and the Nakayama Gishu Literary Prize. Blending historical fact with imaginative storytelling, she has become one of Japan's leading contemporary writers of historical fiction. Her best-known work, "Manyo Yakusha no Ogi" ("The Fan of the Star Actor"), vividly portrays the world of Edo-period Kabuki through a compelling story of ambition, artistry, and human drama.