Dianne Burckhardt is an award-winning author and graphic designer, host of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book talk Podcast and publishes Book Banter Magazine. She is currently working on her medical memoir, Free Bad Haircut with Each Craniotomy, which details her experiences in 2004 as she struggled to survive seven surgeries in six months, six of which were brain surgeries. She shares everything in this memoir including a suicide attempt she had never previous revealed, her near death experience when she actually died briefly from a MRSA staph infection in her brain, and what it has been like learning to thrive with brain damage the past twenty years.
