L.Leander was raised in Lower Michigan, graduating from Hillman Community School. She worked in the Office Management field for many years, later attending Hot Springs Beauty Academy in Hot Springs, Arkansas, where she opened a beauty salon and taught cosmetology. Ms. Leander began writing at the age of ten, when she wrote a short story for her English Class entitled "Three Mice On The Moon." The project received top honors in the class and her English teacher encouraged her to keep writing. She did just that, penning short stories and poems in her spare time. Ms. Leander later began writing songs in her teens and singing them with her father. She has published and won awards for her songwriting and is a sought-after performer on the singer/songwriter circuit. INZARED, Queen of the Elephant Riders is her first book, and is number one in a series about a Gypsy wagon circus in pre-Civil War America. The second in the series is due to be published in the fall. Two non-fiction books are also in the works and the author plans to publish them in 2013. Ms. Leander currently lives between Wisconsin and Mazatlan, Mexico. She says, "The tropical beauty and weather of Mazatlan inspires me to write every day. I belong to a group of writers there who offer encouragement and critique. The cornfields, cows and lush green grass of Wisconsin keep me ever-mindful of my midwestern roots. My biggest hope is that people will enjoy reading my work as much as I enjoy writing it!"