is a Japanese novelist who is best known for writing the series, on which a popular anime is based. Her name after marriage is , but she writes under her maiden name.
Ono was born in Nakatsu, ?ita, Ky?sh? in 1960. She graduated from ?tani University in Ky?to with a degree in Buddhist Studies, and in 1988 was employed by the publisher K?dansha. Her debut story is titled .
Ono is married to , a mystery novelist who writes under the pseudonym .
Before she started work on Twelve Kingdoms, Fuyumi Ono wrote , a horror novel about a boy from another world. She later worked certain events from this novel into the Twelve Kingdoms series. Short stories set in the various kingdoms include: , , , and . In February, 2008, the first new Twelve Kingdoms short story, Hisho no Tori (????) was published in Shinchosha's Yomyom magazine.
According to an interview at the Anime News Network, she is "currently rewriting a girls’ horror series (she) wrote long ago."
