Hello!

I'm Allora: writer, reader, nerd, lover of all-things-dragons.

I grew up on a horse farm as the oldest of ten homeschooled kids. You best believe that experience is one I treasure, and has provided as endless inspiration for most of what I have written since.

I currently reside in Western New York: marketing for a biotech company by day and writing by night. I love gardening, chickens, sunshine, beekeeping, superheroes, ANYTHING involving dragons, snuggles from my mini-direwolf, Digory, travelling, hiking, and reading all the fantasy I can get my hands on.

My mother raised me on "The Classics," but she named me after the princess in an 80s fantasy movie (Willow---my name is 'Allora Dannon'), so is it any surprise that I can't get my head out of the clouds?

I'm also an out and proud romantic "late bloomer." In January of 2023, I started documenting my adventures with dating on TikTok and---30k followers and over 7 million views later---it has been a wild start to this year!

I'm currently working towards publishing my first novel: Sisters, Salt, and Dragons (a Jurassic Park + The Goonies + Dragons adventure story for adult women). Subscribe for updates!

What I Like to Read

I'm partial to immersive and diverse stories with either fantastic world building (like Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows or Scott Westerfield's Leviathan) or the fantastical layered over everyday life (like Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart, and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair). I love movies/shows with plucky groups of kids saving the world like Goonies, E.T., Super 8, and Stranger Things. My favorite books are always ever changing, but I have tattoos on each forearm from my childhood favorites: Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia.