Cowabunga - A family’s 10 year trip around the world

An award-winning writer and journalist, Janis Lasky Couvreux is a Franco-American, lover of languages, travel and adventure addict, sailor, mom, and grandmom. Formerly a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, Janis currently blogs at Huff Post, Pryme Magazine, and The Lady Alliance, where she writes about living bilingually, crossing oceans, backpacking adventures, and raising kids outside the box. In an earlier lifetime, she lived and sailed for 10 years on a sailboat with her husband and two small boys from France to San Francisco. Janis's vignettes have been recently published in Luna Luna Magazine, Longreads, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and she won the first place Adult Nonfiction award at the 2017 San Francisco Writers Conference for a segment of her debut book, Sail Cowabunga! A Family’s Ten Years at Sea, to be released in September 2017 by Filles Vertes Publishing.