Anita Sullivan is a poet, gardener, translator, birdwatcher, rock art enthusiast and piano tuner, whose NPR broadcasts and writings on music have reached a wide audience. Her book on the philosophy of piano tuning The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament won the Western States Book Award in 1986 and was published in a 2nd edition in 2005. She published a poetry chapbook The Middle Window with Traprock Books, Eugene, OR in 2008, and in the same year earned an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Her decade-long travels in Greece resulted in a travel book Ikaria: A Love Odyssey on a Greek Island. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.
