Hiyoko Kurisu (Author) Hiyoko Kurisu was born in Ibaraki Prefecture. She is the author of several novels and light novels, and her debut Confectionary Senpai's Delicious Recipes won the Special Award of Starts Publishing's 'Become a Novelist' Prize. The Amberglow Candy Store is her first novel to be published in English, and there are now four books in the series published in Japan.