Ayano Morio was born in Aichi, Japan. After studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, she made a debut as a cartoonist in 1982 in the monthly comic magazine "Be Love" (Kodansha). She published many fictional cartoon stories in which conflicts or worries of women and children were described. Recently she has switched over to a career in non-fiction cartoons and published biographies of unique characters in Japanese history and the financial world.