“I’m not a bestselling author, I’m just a ‘nobody’ who uses storytelling to encourage others to find their purpose and save their souls.”

Chiara Talluto is first generation Italian-American. Learning English when she entered Kindergarten, she discovered books and became an avid reader. Chiara is also an energetic outdoors-type who dreams of owning a Harley and one day riding across the country feeling the wind whip across her face and tangling all of her brown hair. But until then, she is content with being a stay-at-home mom raising her two active daughters and practicing wife to her wonderful and supportive husband.

Chiara began writing poems and keeping a journal at the age of eleven. Her love for the written word was sparked by reading the Nancy Drew series and Hardy Boys books. It wasn’t until her late teens when she discovered Danielle Steele’s novels that she began her hand at short stories. She continued writing as much as she could even through a prosperous career as a Human Resources Recruiter, and then as an Instructional Designer. While she received awards and accolades for her accomplishments, and her work responsibilities grew, Chiara began to devote less and less time to her joy of writing. Soon, her creativity began to suffer. It wasn’t until after much soul-searching and some tough decision-making that she finally left the corporate world to start writing full-time.

Chiara often tells people,

“I have two addictions: reading and writing. I feel restless and empty when I can’t read fiction, write my deepest thoughts in my journal, or even write down story ideas. Writing calms me, centers me, and provides a healthy outlet for my communication with imaginary friends.”

She’s been blessed to have published five books:  A Christian Romance, Love’s Perfect Surrender, two middle-grade fantasy-fairy tales: Petrella, the Gillian Princess and A Tribute to Tulipia, an Inspirational drama, She Made It Matter, and a Christian Dystopian, The Rekindler.

All of her writings have God in her stories. There’s a beautiful Christian singer/songwriter by the name of Katy Nichole. You should check her out. She wrote this wonderful song called “God Is In This Story.” It’s as if the song was written for all of Chiara’s book characters.

“I never set out to be a writer, or an Inspirational/Christian writer for that matter, it just happened. It’s who I am and who I was meant to be. Writing is my outlet, a spilling of emotions, random thoughts, and imaginary characters that consume my mind twenty-four hours a day. I need to write, just like I need to eat, exercise, and breathe. “

Currently, Chiara is hard at work penning other stories that somehow cross her mind and must be put down into words. When she’s not writing, you can find her reading, writing in her journal, and playing mommy to her growing kids. Her motto: Live, laugh, and cry.