Anita T. Sullivan has owned and operated a piano tuning business for 20 years. She has tuned and repaired modern and historic pianos in Virginia, South Carolina, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon.

About the time she became a piano tuner she earned an M.A. in English from Clemson University. In the 1980’s she studied for three years at Oregon State University towards a post-baccalaureate in Music, and will graduate in August 2008 with an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.

For 11 years, between 1989 and 2000, she was an occasional commentator on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” Her poetry, essays and articles have appeared in a variety of magazines including The Piano Technicians Journal, the Oregon Archaeological Society newsletter, Calyx, English Journal, Northwest Review, The Kenyon Review, and Fireweed. She moves easily back and forth from the craft of writing to the craft of tuning, and has given lectures and workshops on both in a variety of venues, including elementary school classrooms.

She is currently working on a novel that takes place, like her travel essay book, on the island of Ikaria. The theme of the novel is that our old myths and fairy tales have always been works in progress, so let’s start letting the new versions play themselves out in our lives.

Anita has two grown sons, Patrick and Timothy, and lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, piano historian Edwin M. Good.