Anita Huffington was born on Christmas Day, 1934. After growing up in Baltimore she left Maryland in her twenties to study dance under Martha Graham. Within a few years she gave up dancing and returned to school. She attended the University of North Carolina, Bennington College, and the University of South Florida, and received a B.A. and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York. After her graduation she set up her own studio where she began to sculpt in stone. By the mid seventies, the city had begun to lose some of its attraction. She and her husband, Hank Sutter, moved away from New York, purchasing a small, dilapidated log cabin near Fayetteville, Arkansas.

In 1992 she was awarded a fellowship by the Arkansas Arts Council. In 1996 the La Napoule Art Foundation granted her a prestigious residency at the Chateau de la Napoule near Cannes, France. Selected as a finalist by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York for their 1997 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, she won the Jimmy Ernst Award, which is presented at the annual Ceremony to a painter or sculptor whose lifetime contribution has been both consistent and dedicated.

Susan Marquez, writer for The World Sculpture News, states: "Her exquisite mastery of traditional form may somehow chain her to the recognizable characters coming from those traditions. But her unique approach to bronze work evokes the spiritual prima materia within those traditions so that we might truly know them for the very first time."