About

Chloë Rain did not set out to write a memoir about the Arctic Circle.

At thirty, after a breakup that upended everything she thought her life would be, she drifted through years of work, solitude, and quiet questioning. A catalyst came in an ordinary encounter in a coffee shop: a glimpse of her ex with his new partner and baby. The encounter shook something loose, and impulsively, she booked a trip to the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. She owned no hiking boots, had no real plan, and no idea that the journey would reshape the course of her life.

That trip planted a seed. Upon returning home, her life began to unravel and reassemble in unexpected ways: she moved to Virginia, spent long hours in meditation in the woods, and apprenticed with Indigenous healers in Peru for over a decade, learning ceremonial practices and the subtle ways land, ritual, and culture shape the self.

Through her teachers—and the visions and callings they helped her interpret—she was ultimately guided to Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, to study the sacred lands and traditions of the Sámi people. She spent months alone in the wilderness, sitting on the earth, moving with the land, and discovering a form of intimacy and presence that reshaped her understanding of life, love, and belonging.

Today, she lives on a small Greek island beneath the ancient mountain Xombourgo, with the ruins of the Temple of Demeter above her house. From here, she writes about transformation, ritual, and the unexpected ways life unfolds when impulses we do not yet understand are followed with courage.

Her memoir, Woman Entranced by the Escape of Shooting Stars, traces the path from heartbreak in Baltimore to landscapes—and ways of knowing—that could never have been anticipated, ending with a woman profoundly alive, fully present, and at home with herself.