Lenita Sheridan

Lenita Sheridan was raised in a Christian home and became a Christian at age eleven. The family had moved from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska when her father got a position as a physics professor at the University of Alaska. Later the family moved to six and a half acres of woods in the Goldstream Valley outside of Fairbanks. Lenita Sheridan got her imagination from playing in these woods and exploring the valley below. While in college she had poetry published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Lenita Sheridan moved back to Washington state while in her twenties. Guardian of the Gauntlet was begun during a snowstorm in the Puget Sound area. She soon was accepted to graduate school at the University of Washington. Lenita Sheridan graduated wit

Lenita Sheridan was raised in a Christian home and became a Christian at age eleven. The family had moved from Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska when her father got a position as a physics professor at the University of Alaska. Later the family moved to six and a half acres of woods in the Goldstream Valley outside of Fairbanks. Lenita Sheridan got her imagination from playing in these woods and exploring the valley below. While in college she had poetry published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

Lenita Sheridan moved back to Washington state while in her twenties. Guardian of the Gauntlet was begun during a snowstorm in the Puget Sound area. She soon was accepted to graduate school at the University of Washington. Lenita Sheridan graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

Lenita Sheridan now lives on Whidbey Island where she is a substitute teacher as well as a writer. She enjoys singing, crafts, and walking her Japanese Spitz, Haley. The first book, Guardian of the Gauntlet, was a finalist in the Red City Review Books Awards in the category of Young Adult and Children.