Celeste Koehler began writing in 1996 after she left the US and a successful nursing career to marry her Luxembourgish husband. Overwhelmed by foreign languages, and feeling ill-equipped and inadequate in her new home, she turned to writing as a way of expression and to remind herself that she was an intelligent and educated woman. As Dorothy says, in The Wizard of Oz, ‘you never really appreciate your home until you leave it,’ and so it was for Celeste with the English language. Through writing she can go home again, and often does. In her own words, ‘I can go anywhere, do anything, be anybody, and English is my passport.’ Celeste joined the CWC in 2003 and has been stimulated and enriched by the experience. She has written several short stories, participated in the Art Echo project, and is currently working on a novel.