Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher who divides her time between France and the United States.
She is currently working on a literary memoir, A Long Way from Iowa..
Her first book, Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home, received widespread praise, and she and her coauthor publish a blog, Downsizing the Home: Lessons Learned.
Hulstrand is sole proprietor of Winged Words Editorial Services, and founder and co-director of the Essoyes School, which offers writing and art workshops.
She is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of English at Queens College, CUNY; a popular instructor of classes at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.
C.; and she has led book groups at the American Library in Paris.
In 2008 she created Writing from the Heart, a workshop/retreat offered in Essoyes, a beautiful little village in the Champagne region of France.
In 1997 she created Paris: A Literary Adventure for the City University of New York, and she has taught this class in Paris nearly every summer since then, as well as literary travel programs in Cuba, Italy, and Hawaii.
Her essays and articles have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Smithsonian, and she writes regularly for Bonjour Paris, France Today, France Revisited, and for her blog, Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road.
Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher who divides her time between France and the United States
