Geanna Culbertson, the young author of the Crisanta Knight series (she’s Cinderella’s daughter), is living in a fairy tale
Geanna Culbertson. Photo by Bondo Wsyzpolski It was during the summer of 2011, prior to her Sophomore year at USC, that Geanna Culbertson had an inspiration that would change the course of her young life. “I wish there was a more logical way to explain it,” the Peninsula resident says, “but I was literally just sitting somewhere and the exact words, ‘Lady Agnue’s School for Princesses and Other Female Protagonists’ just popped into my head.” A few months passed, during which time Culbertson took a course taught by Aimee Bender called Classic and Contemporary Fairy Tales. Now, ideas were germinating in Culbertson’s head for a fairy tale of her own, or a whole series of them as we’ll soon see. However, her plate was already full (she not only triple-minored while at USC, she was the vice-president of her sorority and she’d begun interning at Nickelodeon and Disney, and later worked at Paramount). For those of you who want to write a novel but just can’t find the time, listen up, this next paragraph’s for you. “My roommate thought I was probably nuts,” Culbertson says, “but every Friday without fail for the years I was in school, no matter how tired I was or how late I went to bed…
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