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MEMOIR IN PROGRESS
“Woman Entranced by the Escape of Shooting Stars: A Memoir of the Arctic Circle and the Life That Claimed Me”
Status
Chloë is currently completing this memoir and seeking literary representation.
After heartbreak disrupts the life she expected, Chloë Rain impulsively travels to the Arctic Circle of Norway. The experience quietly alters the direction of her life, leading to years of spiritual apprenticeship, extended meditation practice in the woods of Virginia, and over a decade studying with Indigenous healers in Peru.
The journey eventually brings her back north to live in the Arctic, where she studies the sacred landscape of Sápmi and the relationship between nature and inner transformation.
This memoir is about the tension between the life we imagine for ourselves and the life that ultimately claims us.
ABOUT CHLOË
Chloë Rain is a writer whose work explores the landscapes—both inner and outer—that shape a life.
Her path has taken her from years of solitary meditation in the woods of Virginia to the mountains of Peru, and eventually to the Arctic Circle of northern Norway, where she lived for several years while completing a Master’s degree in Indigenous Studies at the Arctic University of Norway. Her research focused on the sacred landscape of Sápmi, homeland of the Indigenous Sámi people.
For more than a decade she apprenticed within Indigenous medicine traditions in North and South America, learning ceremonial practices and ways of listening to the rhythms of the earth.
In 2010 she founded Explore Deeply, a body of work devoted to spiritual inquiry and the moments when the life we planned quietly gives way to another path.
She now lives on the island of Tinos in the Cyclades of Greece, beneath the ancient mountain Xombourgo and the ruins of the Temple of Demeter.
Signaldalen, Arctic Circle, Norway
