Anita Sullivan is a piano tuner, poet, editor, publisher, gardener, translator, birdwatcher, and rock art enthusiast. What do these have in common? They are delightful activities, but not so good for earning a living, even doing them all at once! Nonetheless, she owned and operated her own piano tuning business for almost 30 years, tuning and repairing modern pianos as well as historic ones. During that time she published the books listed on this site, earned an MFA in Poetry from Pacific Lutheran University, traveled to Greece six times, and was an occasional commentator on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.”

Anita is a member of the Piano Technicians Guild and has published essays, reviews and articles in the organization’s magazine as well as in a number of music education journals. She has lectured and given workshops on nonfiction, poetry, translation, and piano tuning. Her essays and poems have been published and anthologized in journals devoted to literature, archaeology, travel, and religion. Most recently she completed a novel that takes place on the Greek island of Ikaria.