Meanwhile, she was unable to find a job of any kind before a childhood friend mentioned that the magazine she was editing needed several articles written. Sherri married very young, and the couple moved to Richmond, Virginia, where her husband continued to study.
Sherri graduated with an interdisciplinary major that combined Medieval History and language with Classical Studies, after dabbling in a total of twelve majors, she had enough credits to also earn minors in Philosophy, Psychology, and French, and to earn a certificate of Medieval Studies.
The books focus on an ancient "Pyramid of Protection that the ancient Greek gods formed to protect the human race from supernatural predators and to protect the order of the universe." In this series, she has created an entire universe, the rules of which are maintained solely in her head. Many of the first Dark-Hunter heroes first appeared in her teenager stories. This was the start of the Hunter-Leyends world, which later became the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters and Dream-Hunters stories.
She brought many of her favorite characters from her previous fantasies into one larger series. When in the mid-1980s, she for a small science fiction magazine called Cutting Edge, her boss asked her to write a long-running serial for the magazine. When, she was in high school, she started to writing fantasy stories for herself. Sherri gained her "love of all things that go bump in the night" from her mother, who loved paranormal storylines and never censored what movies the young girl was allowed to watch with her. At 14, she made her first professional sale, and continued to write for school newspapers, yearbooks, local papers and magazines throughout high school. At 7, she wrote and illustrated her first novel, a horror story about a girl who kills her brothers. Her first recognition for her writing came when she won a contest in third grade by writing an essay about her mother for Mother's Day. In kindergarten, she wrote in her Brownie manual that she wanted to be a writer and a mother when she grew up. Sherri is is severely dyslexic, but even as a child Kenyon knew that she wanted to be a writer. At 20, Sherri was devastated when her brother Buddy died. After 18 months, the girls could moved to Atlanta with the rest of the family. Her father left the family when she was only eight, and her mother was forced to send her sons to live with family in Atlanta, Georgia, while she took care of her daughters, because Sherri's older sister, Trish, has severe cerebral palsy. She grew up in the middle of a very big family, she had eight brothers and one sister. Sherrilyn Kenyon, known as Sherri, was born on 11 December 1965 in Columbus, Georgia, USA.
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