Janet Hulstrand profile

Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, teacher, and writing coach. Her essays and articles have been published in the Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian.com and many other venues. She created “Paris through the Eyes of Travelers,” (now “Paris: A Literary Adventure”), an American literature course she has taught in Paris each summer since 1997 for the education abroad programs at Hunter and Queens Colleges of the City University of New York. Through their experiences in this course, more than 200 American students have either developed or deepened a love of France, the French language, and French culture, as well as an understanding of the long, rich, and complex friendship between France and the United States. In 2008 she launched a writing workshop/retreat, Writing from the Heart, offered in the spring and fall in the lovely village of Essoyes, in the Champagne region. Hulstrand often writes on subjects of interest to Francophiles on her blog Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road. She also writes frequently for International Educator, and is the author of NAFSA’s best-selling booklet, "What Parents Need to Know! Before, During, and After Education Abroad". She is coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home, and the blog Downsizing the Home: Lessons Learned. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she is sole proprietor of Winged Words Editorial Services and co-director of the Essoyes School. She is currently working on her next two books, A Long Way from Iowa, a literary memoir, and a literary anthology, Paris through the Eyes of Travelers. You can follow her joyful comments about travel, writing, reading, and life at http://twitter.com/janetjoy.