Raised in the Ozarks, in Carterville, MO, and a graduate of the University of Missouri, Pryor has lived since 1993 on Lake Arrowhead in Limerick, Maine, with her husband, Andrew Rosenstein, also a writer. Besides the two works of non-fiction she's co-authored under the name Pryor -- No Words to Say Goodbye (1994, with Raimonda Kopelnitsky), about a young Soviet-Jewish girl adapting to life in America, and For Real: The Uncensored Truth About America's Teenagers (1995, with Jane Pratt, former editor of Sassy magazine), profiles of American teens and their issues -- Pryor has also written three romances under the pseudonym Annie Garrett.