Dianne Myers Haneke Ph.D. graduated from Santa Ana High School (CA) with a major in mathematics and science. She earned a double-major BA in Social Sciences and Education from Southern California College in Costa Mesa. Mrs. Haneke launched her teaching career in south Los Angeles and pursued graduate studies in counseling and guidance at San Jose State College. She and her family relocated in the northern Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. Upon completion of an M.S. Ed. in Reading at SUNY-Albany, Dianne established reading labs for several rural school districts - primarily assisting students from kindergarten through grade six. The last two years before her doctoral residency, she taught reading and remedial English at a rural junior-senior high school.

Upon completion of her doctoral studies and residency at SUNY-Albany, Dianne taught graduate and undergraduate courses in education - especially reading, language arts, and assessment - at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. After a family move to Texas, she continued training teachers in literacy education at Concordia University - Austin. At CUA, Dr. Haneke expanded undergraduate literacy courses, helped design the graduate Master of Education program, developed the Advanced Literacy strand coursework for the Master of Education degree, expanded classroom-based fieldwork for stgudents prior to student teaching, chaired the College of Education's state visit for program accreditation, and organized the College of Education's section of the CUA website. Dr. Haneke retired from Concordia University as Professor Emeritus in 2001 for medical reasons.

Increasingly, Dr. Haneke's concern about the writing abilities of students from grade one through graduate school heightened her interest, stirred her passion, and honed her expertise in the field of writing. Improve Your Writing emerged from this concern, interest, and passion to write more efficiently for a range of purposes in a variety of settings and for a diversity of audiences. Her educational perspective - that "all students can learn given appropriate instruction" - blends research-based theory with practical applications from real classroom experiences to enable all students to become successful readers and writers.

Dianne is the wife of John P. Haneke (a retired Trainer of Trainers at Dell Inc. and engineer at IBM), the mother of three adult children - Mark (an aviation consultant), Debbie (an interior designer), and Julie (a high school special education math and ESL teacher and coach), and a grandmother ("Oma") of seven grandchildren - Antonio, Erik, Angelina, Alyssa, Aaliyah, Ty, and Nico. All of her family and extended family impact her life and shape her perspectives on life, education, reading, and writing.

John and Dianne have traveled extensively and studied several languages that provide a broader understanding of literacy issues. Dianne's passion for writing and pursuit of excellence in education inspire her to create user-friendly texts in a variety of fields such as education, literacy, inspirational prose, music, and Bible studies. Her life mission is to enable others to successfully achieve their highest dreams with their God-given abilities.