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, France Revisited.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. She often writes on subjects of interest to Francophiles on her blog, Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road. She teaches literature and culture classes at Politics & Prose bookstore in Washington D.C., and has also taught literature courses for Queens College (CUNY) in Italy, Hawaii, and Cuba.

Hulstrand lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she is sole proprietor of Winged Words Editorial Services, co-director of the Essoyes School, and a member of the Executive Planning Team of the American Writers Museum Foundation.  She is the coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home, and the blog Downsizing the Home: Lessons Learned. She is currently working on her next two books, A Long Way from Iowa, a writer's memoir, and a literary anthology of writing about Paris.

You can  follow her joyful comments about travel, writing, reading, and life at http://twitter.com/janetjoy.