Born on February 3 in Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, Mizuho Kusanagi began her professional manga career with Yoiko no Kokoroe (The Rules of a Good Child) in 2003. Her other works include NG Life, which was serialized in Hana to Yume and The Hana to Yume magazines and published by Hakusensha in Japan. Yona of the Dawn was adapted into an anime in 2014.