Dianne Cikusa
Dianne Cikusa is an Australian writer and poet. In 1994, she graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of Commerce, and later completed there a Graduate Diploma in Arts in 2010. Following a strong interest in foreign languages, she further pursued and obtained a Diploma of Language Studies from the University of Sydney in 2014, majoring in French.
Dianne’s work has been published in various Australian and international online journals, poetry zines, print anthologies and literary magazines. In addition, one of her short poems appeared as digital media in the Melbourne 2010 Overload Poetry Festival.
In 2020, Dianne’s bilingual poetry book “The Rain Sermon” won first prize (Gold Medal) in the Poetry category and third prize (Bronze Medal) for Best Ebook Cover in the Global Ebook Awards.
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