Career
She also wrote under the pen name Sugar Salt (砂糖 塩, Satō Shio). She made her professional debut in 1977 with the publication of Koi wa Ajinomono!? in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic. Her stories were usually serious science fiction drawn in a "subdued" style.
Her short story, The Changeling, in addition to being published in the English-language anthology Four Shōjo Stories, was serialised in Animerica.
Satō died from brain cancer on April 4, 2010, aged 57.