Wahyu Kyestiati Sumarno is a doctoral student in education – teaching, learning, and development at the University of Central Florida, focusing on second-language writing to explore the role of cognition and the Process-Genre Approach in improving student’s writing skills.

She is a lecturer in English at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” in Surabaya. She earned her bachelor’s in English teaching from Universitas Negeri Semarang. She holds two master’s degrees, one in curriculum and instruction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and one in English teaching from Universitas Negeri Semarang.