Diana Kupke has written children's fiction and also works of social commentary, including Volunteering : How to Run a Successful Volunteer Program With Happy Volunteers, How to Get More Satisfaction Out of Being a Volunteer (1991) and Just Me and the Kids : How to Survive and Succeed as a Sole-Supporting Parent in Australia (1987). She has contributed to many Australian and international magazines and newspapers beginning as a cadet with The Age, and in 1986 won a grant from the Literature Board. Kupke has also worked in the field of health and welfare.