Janet Hulstrand is a writer, editor, and teacher whose articles and essays have been published in Bonjour Paris, the Christian Science Monitor, Humanities Education, International Educator, Smithsonian.com, and many other publications. She is coauthor of Moving On: A Practical Guide to Downsizing the Family Home (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) and author of NAFSA's best-selling booklet, What Parents Need to Know! Before, During, and After Education Abroad. You can visit her blog, Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road at http://wingedword.wordpress.com or follow her mini-posts on http:twitter.com/janetjoy

Since 1997, Hulstrand has created, taught, and directed education abroad programs in France, Italy, and Hawaii. She created and developed "Paris A Literary Adventure" and "Hawaii: A Literary Adventure,"  American literature courses offered through the education abroad programs at Hunter and Queens Colleges of the City University of New York. In the spring of 2008, she introduced a new writing workshop, "Writing from the Heart...in the Heart of Champagne," which is offered in the fall and spring in Essoyes.

Hulstrand speaks French and Spanish. She has a B.A. in Child Psychology from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in English Literature from Hunter College, CUNY. She has studied writing with Anatole Broyard and literature with Philip Roth. She is a member of American Independent Writers, the Editorial Freelancers Association, the International Women's Writing Guild, and the Women's National Book Association.

Hulstrand was born and raised in Minnesota, and has lived in New York City and in France.  She currently lives with her family in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she operates her own business, Winged Words Editorial Services (www.winged-words.com). She is currently working on her next two books, Paris: A Literary Adventure, an anthology; and A Long Way from Iowa, a memoir.