About me

Reader Art

I'm a writer living in Iowa City, Iowa. Have you heard the Interstate-80 Iowa song? It's about driving through Iowa: "corn, corn, corn--look a tree!--corn, corn, corn, Iowa Citeeeee". That's pretty much what it's like. I love living in Iowa.

Here's a picture of me:

And here is a picture of my kitchen table, which is where I write:

I write on a computer named Sparks, a matte-black stealth MacBook laptop with a dragon sticker on it.

 If you're wondering how to pronounce my tricky last name, Prineas, click here.

My husband is a mad scientist. Here's a picture of the Device in his physics lab:

There's a Device in Magic Thief, too. What a coincidence!

We have two kids and two cats. Here's one of the cats:

And I just got a dog!

Her name is Athena, and she is a goddess among dogs.

Here are some more things about me: Originally I'm from Lyme, Connecticut (yes, that's the town where Lyme Disease comes from). I went to college in Minnesota and then did a PhD in English literature.

Before writing Magic Thief, I wrote a lot of fantasy stories for adults; I didn't even think of myself as a writer for children until my agent sold the book and two sequels to HarperCollins Children's. Now I'm having a lot of fun being a kids book writer.  Another thing about me is that I have a thing for dragons.  I even have a collection of dragon action figures.