Janet Hulstrand profile

Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, and teacher whose 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,” 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, “Writing from the Heart,” now offered each spring in the 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.” (www.wingedword.wordpress.com) Hulstrand 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 also coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home (www.movingonthebook.com). She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she is sole proprietor of Winged Words Editorial Services (www.winged-words.com) and co-director of the Essoyes School (www.essoyesschool.com) She is currently working on her next book, A Long Way from Iowa, a literary memoir.