Born in Taipei City in 1960, she is originally from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a degree in history. Was a reporter for Minsheng Daily. Now writes full-time, with a focus on children's literature. Has published more than two hundred volumes of fairy tales, juvenile novels, translations and rewritings. Dozens of books have been published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Among them, the full-length juvenile novel Little Wan Xin won the 1992 Golden Tripod Award, the short juvenile novel collection The Temptation of Pearl Milk Tea was selected as the best children's book at the 1996 Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, and the short juvenile novel collection The True Apple Pie was selected as one of the top 100 best books at the 1998 Hong Kong Book Fair. Some of his works have been translated into English, Japanese, Korean and German.
Graduated from the Department of History at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, and a former reporter for Taiwan's Minsheng Newspaper, he quit his job as a reporter at the end of May, 1991, and then devoted himself full-time to writing at home, with a focus on children's literature, and has published more than fifty volumes of children's stories and juvenile novels, and more than sixty volumes of translations and rewritings. He is currently Taiwan's best-selling author of young adult literature and a best-selling author whose popularity index has soared; his works are popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia, and he enjoys a high reputation in the overseas Chinese book industry.
Butler's original works are mainly juvenile novels, of which the "Boys and Girls Series" is even more popular among young readers in Taiwan. Butler believes that when everyone goes through puberty, there is a stage where they feel confused and have a lot of thoughts and mindsets. Only by understanding and respecting them can a writer become a friend to teenagers. Therefore, in her novels, readers can feel that the author has given the highest sympathy and care to the teenagers who are struggling on the edge of growth with true feelings. There is not a single word of dogmatic criticism in the book, nor is there a trace of false sentiment, but there is a heart of understanding and respect for the teenagers. Her juvenile novels such as "The Temptation of Pearl Milk Tea" and "True Love Apple Pie" are filled with adolescent thoughts and turmoil, fantasies and perplexities, passions and helplessness, loss and growth, in which the privacy and sweet sorrows of youth are interpreted in such a wonderful and touching way, letting juvenile readers experience the "taste of growing up" from them. Her works are simple and fresh, chic and humorous, and close to the hearts of young readers nowadays. As a result, Butterfly has become the idol of Taiwan's new generation of young readers, and was the first writer in Taiwan's young adult literature industry to set up a personal Web site; in 2002, the number of Web readers had reached more than 130,000 people.
It is reported that Butler Qi's works have won Taiwan's Golden Tripod Award, the Chinese Children's Literature Award, the Best Children's Book Award at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the Hong Kong Book Fair's Top 100 Best Books Award.