Shu-Fen Wang graduated from National Taiwan Normal University. An award-winning and bestselling children's author, she has also served as a primary school director, art teacher, and consultant and host for literary programs on public television. Since publishing her first book, Fresh Stories for First Graders, in 1993, Wang has produced over sixty works, including children's books and teaching materials. Her children's novel I Am an Idiot, frequently featured on life education reading lists in Taiwan, has been published in Korean and simplified Chinese and adapted into a Korean film.