Anita Smisek is an American Dominican, music publisher, pianist and organist who studied piano with Mary Davida Wood, Mary Edward Blackwell and Milous Ferlik, organ with Rosilla Gross, Miriam Murphy and Robert Luther and singing with Mary Margaret Leahy, Oksana Bryn and Axel Theimer. In 1960 she became a member of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. She is committed to the dissemination of contemporary Czech music in the United States and published during her time as an organist at St. Wenceslaus Church in New Prague the hymn book Give Glory, which contains 77 well-known Czech chorales in English translation. She recorded traditional Czech songs on the albums Koledy – Czech Christmas Carol, Ryba – Czech Christmas Mass and Give Glory, Earth and Heaven. In 1989 she founded the publisher Alliance Publications with Joel Blahnik, who is particularly dedicated to the publication of music educational and church music works and the promotion of contemporary and especially Czech compositions.