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Woman Entranced by the Escape of Shooting Stars
A memoir
In a coffee shop in Baltimore, Chloë saw her former boyfriend with his new partner and baby.
Not long after, she booked a trip to the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway, without fully understanding why.
She had no real plan. No clear reason for going. Only a pull toward a place she did not yet understand.
She owned no hiking boots, and had no idea that the journey would reshape the course of her life.
That trip planted a seed.
She returned and tried to resume a life she recognized, moving to Seattle and continuing her career. But something had broken open.
She resigned her career, left that life behind, and moved to Virginia, where she spent five years alone in the woods in sustained meditation and solitude.
From there, her path unfolded further: apprenticing with Indigenous healers in Peru for over a decade, and later being guided back north to live above the Arctic Circle.
There, she spent months alone in the wilderness, moving with the land and discovering a form of intimacy and presence that reshaped her understanding of life, love, and belonging.
Woman Entranced by the Escape of Shooting Stars is a memoir about the life we imagine for ourselves, and the life that — sometimes irrevocably—takes its place when we do not turn away from something that continues to ask more of us.
Chloë is currently seeking literary representation.
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 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
Writing at the intersection of landscape, memory, and the unexpected paths a life can take.
