Dianne Cikusa

Dianne Cikusa was born in Australia and grew up in Sydney. She attended the University of Wollongong, completing a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and a Graduate Diploma in Arts. Continuing a specialisation in modern languages, she later graduated with a Diploma of Language Studies from the University of Sydney, majoring in French. Dianne's writing has been published in various online journals, anthologies and print magazines. She was also a contributor of digital poetry in the 2010 Melbourne Overload Poetry Festival. She has most recently been awarded prizes in two categories for the 2020 Global Ebook Awards (Gold in Poetry and Bronze for Best Ebook Cover). Hope and Substance (Mignon Press, 2015) is her first full-length poetry collection. Consequent works of poetry include The Sea In-Between (2018) and The Rain Sermon: Le Sermon de la Pluie (2019). She has also produced three print books of wisdom insights (2020). Six new publications will be due for release (as ebooks) from July 1, 2021.

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