Yayoi Ogawa is a manga artist from Kanagawa, Japan. "Knight of the Ice" is her second series to be published in English after cult classic "You're My Pet" (originally published under the title "Tramps Like Us"), which was a 2003 Kodansha Manga Award winner. Her blood type is AB. She graduated from Tama Art University. Her husband is the painter Shinji Asano.