The Mangaka: Ai Yazawa   

Altough this author is pretty unknown into the 'net, she's a very popular mangaka in her country. She wrote many manga before starting Gokinjo Monogatari, which surely remains her most popular work.
She collaborates mainly with Shueusha - RAABUURETO was published in Ribon - and she's now working for Zipper , an awesome japanese fashion magazine, where Paradise Kiss is issued monthly.

This lack of informations about her cannot be filled. Anyway, from what you can see into the manga, reading her corners, she's a funny girl who loves animals - especially cats.
Another thing she likes very much are wigs, in a corner in the second tankubon she says she has many wigs and that she wear them while working too. -_-;;
Talking about the corners, I think they are the funniest part of the whole manga .. she uses those little spaces to explain parts of her work, to blame herself for her many spelling mistakes and to advertize the readers about the manga's gadgets.
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