Lenita Sheridan was born in Seattle, Washington. She moved to Fairbanks, Alaska when her father got a position as a physics professor at the University of Alaska. Lenita Sheridan was raised in a Christian home and became a Christian, herself, at age eleven. She loved playing in the Alaskan woods and especially enjoyed it after the family moved to the Goldstream Valley outside of Fairbanks. There her parents had built a house on six and a half acres. Playing in these woods helped her develop her imagination. Lenita Sheridan had her poetry published in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. When she was in her twenties she moved back to Washington state. During a snowstorm, she began her book Guardian of the Gauntlet. Later she was accepted into graduate school at the University of Washington. Her book, Guardian of the Gauntlet, became her thesis. Upon graduating, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Lenita Sheridan now lives on Whidbey Island, with her Japanese Spitz, Haley, where she is a substitute teacher (as well as a writer). She is active in the Coupeville United Methodist Church where she sings in the choir, does crafts for the church bazaar and teaches crafts to children. The first book, Guardian of the Gauntlet, was a finalist in the Red City Review Book Awards in the category of Young Adult and Children.