Debra Ollivier is the author of the national bestseller What French Women Know: About Love, Sex, and Other Matters of Heart and Mind and Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl. Her essays are also published in the best-selling anthologies Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-life Parenthood and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves. She was a regular contributor to Salon and her work appears in numerous publications, including Harpers, Playboy, Parents, The Guardian, Les Inrockuptibles and Le Monde.

Debra lived in Paris for over ten years, is a dual citizen, and continues to nurture an enduring and delicious love/hate relationship with the French. She is currently an editor at The Huffington Post and writer at large.