Adrienne Ehlert Bashista

Adrienne Ehlert Bashista is the co-editor of Easy to Love but Hard to Raise: Real Parents, Challenging Kids, True Stories, and is also the author of two picture books about Russian adoption: Mishka: An Adoption Tale, and When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption. She's had stories, essays, and articles published in a variety of journals, both print and on-line.

She currently trains parents and professionals in the Brain-Based approach to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and is the co-founder and Training Director for Families Affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, or FAFASD (fafasd.org). Her professional website is at adriennebashista.net. She is currently working on a book about FASD.

She lives in beautiful western Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.