Leita Stevens started drawing at the age of five when her mother sketched a foal for her.  She decided that she wanted to be able to draw just as well, and spent the first 16 years of her life drawing horses constantly.  In high school, she began branching out into drawing people, and portraits.   In college, she furthered her artistic education with sculpting, figure drawing and design drawing with the aim to draw comic books. 

When life took her in a slightly different direction, she was forced to take an eight year hiatus from her artwork.  Only through the efforts of her son did she take up artwork again, this time dabbling in the new medium of digital art.  It was in this that she found she could finally paint in ways she couldn't in traditional mediums.

She has been a free-lance artist now for about four years, doing design work by request, and the occasional book cover for Cobblestone Press, in addition to various requests from friends and such.

In addition to being a free-lance artist, she is an avid dressage rider, and martial artist.  Although retired from teaching riding, she still teaches karate to some very young students, and plans to resume showing her Thoroughbred mare in dressage!