P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series, along with her mother, P. J. Traci spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she also studied voice. Traci and P. J. wrote eight novels together before P. J. passed away in 2016. Traci continued the series and has written two Monkeewrench novels on her own. She now lives outside Minneapolis.