Matsuri Hino

Matsuri Hino is a Japanese manga artist born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. She made her professional debut in 1995 with the one-shot "Kono Yume ga Sametara" (When This Dream Is Over) in Hakusensha's LaLa DX. Her serialized work appears in LaLa, including Captive Hearts (1999-2002), MeruPuri: Marchen Prince (2002-2004) and Wanted (2005).

She is best known for the gothic romance Vampire Knight, serialized from 2004 to 2013 and collected in nineteen volumes, which was adapted into an anime series. She also collaborated with Ayuna Fujisaki on the Vampire Knight light novel trilogy.