Anita Sullivan
Anita Sullivan is a poet, essayist, and piano tuner who has written extensively about her profession. She has published two essay collections, The Seventh Dragon: The Riddle of Equal Temperament (winner of the Western States Book Award for creative nonfiction), and Ikaria, a Greek travel book. Her chapbook The Middle Window was published in 2008 by Traprock Books, Eugene, and a full length collection titled Garden of Beasts in 2010 by Airlie Press, Monmouth. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific Lutheran University. She is the director of the Windfall Reading Series in Eugene, where she lives with her husband, piano historian Edwin M. Good.
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"We each carry lines of poetry with us. Words that others have written float back to us and stay with us, indelibly. We clutch these "life lines" like totems, repeat them as mantras, and summon them for comfort and laughter."
-Academy of American Poets