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 (2010). Following a continued interest in modern languages and translation, she further obtained a Diploma of Language Studies from the University of Sydney in 2014, majoring in French. Dianne's work has been published in a number of online journals, poetry zines, anthologies and print magazines. One of her short poems appeared as digital media in the Melbourne 2010 Overload Poetry Festival.