Dorota Chioma
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Art & Crafts, Biography, Essays, Illustrated/Photography, Memoir, Mental Health, Self-Help/Personal Development, Children's Poetry, General Poetry
Dorota Chioma is an independent writer and artist whose work explores survival, identity, and transformation in the aftermath of emotional and psychological extremes. Drawing from lived experience, Between the Avalanche and the Ashes traces the terrain between collapse and recovery, examining what remains after intensity burns out and silence settles in. Her writing is reflective and embodied, rooted in the belief that creativity can be both witness and medicine. Through prose that is honest, restrained, and deeply human, Dorota engages with themes of mental health, resilience, and the slow work of rebuilding a self from fragments. She writes for readers who have lived through upheaval and are learning how to stand again — not unchanged, but awake.
Dorota Chioma's books
Genres: Essays, Mental Health, Mind Body Spirit
Formats: Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Dragonfly Atlas A Lived Atlas of Bipolar States This book is not a memoir, a guide, or a clinical manual. It is an atlas. Dragonfly Atlas maps the shifting inner landscapes of bipolar experience through a series of artworks and accompanying texts that describe states of mind and body as territories rather than symptoms. From fragile emergence to charged activation, from collapse and aftermath to ordinary stability and profound presence, each entry captures a condition that may be lived, recognised, endured, and revisited. The dragonfly serves as both subject and metaphor — a creature that spends much of its life underwater before entering air, carrying the memory of depth within flight. In these pages, stillness does not imply calm, intensity does not imply failure, and stability is shown in many forms: luminous, strained, hardened, grounded, and quiet. Each state is explored from multiple vantage points: — the internal experience —...
Genres: Illustrated/Photography, Memoir, Mental Health
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15
Between the Avalanche and the Ashes is a quiet, unflinching meditation on what happens after everything falls apart — and after the fire has burned through. Moving through the aftermath of emotional collapse and psychic intensity, Dorota Chioma writes from the liminal space where survival is no longer dramatic, only necessary. Neither memoir nor manifesto, this book traces the fragile terrain between destruction and recovery: the numb days after overwhelm, the strange calm that follows chaos, and the slow, bodily work of learning how to live again. With restraint and clarity, Chioma explores mental health not as a diagnosis but as a lived landscape — one shaped by cycles of force and fatigue, clarity and loss. This is a book about endurance without heroics, healing without spectacle, and identity rebuilt not in triumph but in attention. Between the Avalanche and the Ashes speaks to readers who have endured intensity, who...