Diane Flanel Piniaris is a native New Yorker who has been teaching EFL since 1980. A graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a BA summa cum laude in English Literature, she spent three years working as a book editor in publishing houses in New York City and London. After studying TEFL methodology at the International Teacher Training Institute in Hastings, England, she moved to Greece, where she taught English for many years. She now lives in New York, where she continues to write and edit EFL textbooks.
