Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher. She is the author of A Long Way from Iowa and Demystifying the French, and coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home. She writes frequently for Bonjour Paris, France Today, France Revisited, and for her blog, Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road. She created and has taught “Paris: A Literary Adventure” for City University of New York study abroad programs since 1997, and she teaches online classes for Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington DC. She lives in a beautiful little village in the Champagne region of France, where she is working on her next book.