Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher who grew up in Minnesota, and has lived in New York City, Washington DC, and France. She is the author of A Long Way from Iowa: From the Heartland to the Heart of France, and Demystifying the French: How to Love Them, and Make Them Love You, and coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home. She writes frequently for Bonjour Paris, France Today, France Revisited, and on her Substack, Searching for Home. She created and taught “Paris: A Literary Adventure” for City University of New York study abroad programs from 1997-2019, and she currently teaches online classes for Politics and Prose bookstore. She lives in a beautiful little village in the Champagne region of France, where she is working on her next book.