The manga artist was once active[1] under her previous pen name, Izumi Hiro (和泉 ヒロ) at the end of the 1990s, but has abandoned the name after she won the Best Rookie award in the LMS for Kaeri Michi, Yuki no Netsu.
[3] She said that one of her older brothers was an otaku and anonymously posted the story of his younger sister, Hiro, on the web radio of her work Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
[5] She also states that currently, she listens to songs by Akeboshi and Rie fu, although her all-time favourite singer is Hikaru Utada.
[8] The author and Yuki Fujitsuka both won the same category in the 31st Hakusensha Athena Newcomers' Awards in year 2006.
[12] Hiro Fujiwara made her debut by winning the Best Rookie award in the 144th LaLa Mangaka Scout Course for her work Kaeri Michi, Yuki no Netsu (帰り道、雪の熱).
[14] She has submitted a few works to Hakusensha's other contest besides the manga artist's other attempts at the LMS and LMG.
[18] In 2005, she started the year by serializing Kimi no Hidamari (君の陽だまり, Your Sunny Spot) in the March issue of LaLa DX.
In the November issue of LaLa DX, she published her last work of the year, Tōmei na Sekai (透明な世界, The Transparent World) which was also later compiled together into Kaichō wa Maid-sama!
She inspired in some things of Gakuen Alice of Tachibana Higuchi for do her manga, where discovered the Hakusensha editorial.
[20] Besides authoring the manga, Fujiwara has also illustrated the furoku or freebies given out by the magazine as well as writing the scripts for the drama CDs.
[24] In 2012, Fujiwara held a small charity auction featuring characters from her manga Kaichō wa Maid-sama!.