diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index f2006f3..c7fba81 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ export type Options = Readonly<{
 	 */
 	text?: string;
 
+	/**
+	 * Text to display before the spinner.
+	 */
+	prefixText?: string;
+
 	/**
 	 * Name of one of the provided spinners. See [`example.js`](https://github.com/BendingBender/ora/blob/master/example.js) in this repo if you want to test out different spinners. On Windows, it will always use the line spinner as the Windows command-line doesn't have proper Unicode support.
 	 *
@@ -114,9 +119,14 @@ export type PersistOptions = Readonly<{
 	symbol?: string;
 
 	/**
-	 * Text to be persisted. Default: Current text.
+	 * Text to be persisted after the symbol. Default: Current `text`.
 	 */
 	text?: string;
+
+	/**
+	 * Text to be persisted before the symbol. Default: Current `prefixText`.
+	 */
+	prefixText?: string;
 }>;
 
 export interface Ora {
@@ -126,9 +136,14 @@ export interface Ora {
 	readonly isSpinning: boolean;
 
 	/**
-	 * Change the text.
+	 * Change the text after the spinner.
 	 */
 	text: string;
+	
+	/**
+	 * Change the text before the spinner.
+	 */
+	prefixText: string;
 
 	/**
 	 * Change the spinner color.
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 3cbfe5f..ba1da41 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ const stripAnsi = require('strip-ansi');
 const wcwidth = require('wcwidth');
 
 const TEXT = Symbol('text');
+const PREFIX_TEXT = Symbol('prefixText');
 
 class Ora {
 	constructor(options) {
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ class Ora {
 
 		// Set *after* `this.stream`
 		this.text = this.options.text;
+		this.prefixText = this.options.prefixText;
 		this.linesToClear = 0;
 		this.indent = this.options.indent;
 	}
@@ -78,18 +80,32 @@ class Ora {
 		return this[TEXT];
 	}
 
+	get prefixText() {
+		return this[PREFIX_TEXT];
+	}
+
 	get isSpinning() {
 		return this.id !== null;
 	}
 
-	set text(value) {
-		this[TEXT] = value;
+	updateLineCount() {
 		const columns = this.stream.columns || 80;
-		this.lineCount = stripAnsi('--' + value).split('\n').reduce((count, line) => {
+		const fullPrefixText = (typeof this[PREFIX_TEXT] === 'string') ? this[PREFIX_TEXT] + '-' : '';
+		this.lineCount = stripAnsi(fullPrefixText + '--' + this[TEXT]).split('\n').reduce((count, line) => {
 			return count + Math.max(1, Math.ceil(wcwidth(line) / columns));
 		}, 0);
 	}
 
+	set text(value) {
+		this[TEXT] = value;
+		this.updateLineCount();
+	}
+
+	set prefixText(value) {
+		this[PREFIX_TEXT] = value;
+		this.updateLineCount();
+	}
+
 	frame() {
 		const {frames} = this.spinner;
 		let frame = frames[this.frameIndex];
@@ -99,8 +115,10 @@ class Ora {
 		}
 
 		this.frameIndex = ++this.frameIndex % frames.length;
+		const fullPrefixText = typeof this.prefixText === 'string' ? this.prefixText + ' ' : '';
+		const fullText = typeof this.text === 'string' ? ' ' + this.text : '';
 
-		return frame + ' ' + this.text;
+		return fullPrefixText + frame + fullText;
 	}
 
 	clear() {
@@ -187,8 +205,13 @@ class Ora {
 	}
 
 	stopAndPersist(options = {}) {
+		const prefixText = options.prefixText || this.prefixText;
+		const fullPrefixText = (typeof prefixText === 'string') ? prefixText + ' ' : '';
+		const text = options.text || this.text;
+		const fullText = (typeof text === 'string') ? ' ' + text : '';
+
 		this.stop();
-		this.stream.write(`${options.symbol || ' '} ${options.text || this.text}\n`);
+		this.stream.write(`${fullPrefixText}${options.symbol || ' '}${fullText}n`);
 
 		return this;
 	}
diff --git a/index.test-d.ts b/index.test-d.ts
index 21468b1..af7f1f8 100644
--- a/index.test-d.ts
+++ b/index.test-d.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import ora, {promise} from '.';
 
 const spinner = ora('Loading unicorns');
 ora({text: 'Loading unicorns'});
+ora({prefixText: 'Loading unicorns'});
 ora({spinner: 'squish'});
 ora({spinner: {frames: ['-', '+', '-']}});
 ora({spinner: {interval: 80, frames: ['-', '+', '-']}});
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ spinner.info('info foo');
 spinner.stopAndPersist();
 spinner.stopAndPersist({text: 'all done'});
 spinner.stopAndPersist({symbol: '@', text: 'all done'});
+spinner.stopAndPersist({prefixText: 'all done'});
 spinner.clear();
 spinner.render();
 spinner.frame();
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index e0353ec..154b112 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ Type: `string`
 
 Text to display after the spinner.
 
+##### prefixText
+
+Type: `string`
+
+Text to display before the spinner.
+
 ##### spinner
 
 Type: `string` `Object`<br>
@@ -162,9 +168,16 @@ Symbol to replace the spinner with.
 ###### text
 
 Type: `string`<br>
-Default: Current text
+Default: Current `text`
+
+Text to be persisted after the symbol
+
+###### prefixText
+
+Type: `string`<br>
+Default: Current `prefixText`
 
-Text to be persisted.
+Text to be persisted before the symbol.
 
 <img src="screenshot-2.gif" width="480">
 
@@ -182,7 +195,11 @@ Get a new frame.
 
 #### .text
 
-Change the text.
+Change the text after the spinner.
+
+#### .prefixText
+
+Change the text before the spinner.
 
 #### .color
 
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index 579b4aa..4ccab15 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -235,6 +235,15 @@ test('erases wrapped lines', t => {
 	t.is(clearedLines, 3);
 	t.is(cursorAtRow, -2);
 
+	spinner.clear();
+	reset();
+	spinner.prefixText = 'foo\n';
+	spinner.text = '\nbar';
+	spinner.render();
+	spinner.render();
+	t.is(clearedLines, 3); // Cleared 'foo\n\nbar'
+	t.is(cursorAtRow, -2);
+
 	spinner.stop();
 });
 
@@ -304,3 +313,11 @@ test('indent option throws', t => {
 		spinner.indent = -1;
 	}, 'The `indent` option must be an integer from 0 and up');
 });
+
+test('.stopAndPersist() with prefixText', macro, spinner => {
+	spinner.stopAndPersist({symbol: '@', text: 'foo'});
+}, /bar @ foo/, {prefixText: 'bar'});
+
+test('.stopAndPersist() with manual prefixText', macro, spinner => {
+	spinner.stopAndPersist({symbol: '@', prefixText: 'baz', text: 'foo'});
+}, /baz @ foo/, {prefixText: 'bar'});