Theresa Reiner was born Theresa Marie Stiles in Saratoga Springs, New York. She graduated from Saratoga High School. Theresa is happily married to her husband Robert. After their children Nicholas and Jessica were grown and in school full time, Theresa went to college completing her Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education at Alvernia University (formerly Alvernia College) in Reading, Pennsylvania. She started teaching elementary school and began right away to obtain her Masters of Science in Education Degree in the area of Computer Education within the Elementary Classroom. She taught for twenty two years with the thought of writing children’s books into her retirement.