Amy Kim Kibuishi (née Ganter) (born 1980 in Binghamton, New York),[1] is an American author and illustrator of original English-language manga.

Kibuishi is a winner in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga[2] competition, winning the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl.

[3] In 2005, Kibuishi created the character designs and comic art for the original Diner Dash video game by Gamelab.

[4] She later authored Tokyopop's Sorcerers & Secretaries,[5] the story of Josh, a "bad boy," who falls for Nicole, a university student and part-time secretary who writes the story of the sorcerer Ellon in her dream journal.

[9] By 2007, Kibuishi had stopped creating manga and webcomics to focus on her new family, describing herself as a "former cartoonist" on her blog.