Anita Kulina grew up in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood, where her father was a millwright at U.S. Steel Homestead Works and her mother chased around their six kids. She has always loved to write, even as a child, kneeling at the coffee table in the family’s living room. Her first publication was a letter to the editor in Adventure Comics #341.
After graduating Community College of Allegheny County, Anita worked at Duquesne University, where she also went to night school. When she wasn’t working or studying, Anita was chronicling Greenfield’s history, which resulted in her book Millhunks and Renegades. She currently writes an ongoing cozy mystery series (A Question of Devotion, Reason for Concern) that features lovable Mrs. B, who lives in a thinly disguised Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Anita has been writing family histories, and coaching others with their family histories, for nearly thirty years. She retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019 and currently teaches her writing series, From Memory to Story, both in private classes and at Carnegie Mellon’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.