Marimo Ragawa

is a Japanese manga artist. She began submitting manga to comic magazines when she was only 12 years old, in the sixth grade of elementary school. She continued to send her manga to the same magazine for four years, but failed to receive a positive critical reception. Ragawa then decided to switch to a different magazine, ''Hana to Yume''. Her first submission to this magazine won a prize called the "Top Prize" (). Two years later in 1990, she succeeded in achieving her debut with her one-shot manga , published in ''Hana to Yume'' issue 22.

Ragawa continued to create long-running manga series such as ''Baby & Me'', ''New York New York'', and ''''. In 1995, she won the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award in the category for ''Baby & Me''. In 2012, she won both the 36th Kodansha Manga Award in the category and an Excellence Award at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival for ''Those Snow White Notes''. Provided by Wikipedia