Yano Arou (born 1973) is a Japanese science fiction writer. He made his literary debut after winning the 11th Hayakawa Science Fiction Contest Grand Prize with "Horizon Gate: Phenomenon Hunter" in 2023. His fiction combines rigorous scientific ideas with large-scale speculative world-building, exploring humanity's future through space exploration and advanced technology. His best-known novel, "My Body on the Moon," begins with the discovery of mysterious headless bodies on the far side of the Moon and develops into an epic story about human evolution and the future of civilization.