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Appalachian Author

Chrissie Anderson Peters is a Southwest Virginia native and the author of three books: Dog Days and Dragonflies, Running From Crazy, and Blue Ridge Christmas. Her writing can also be found in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Mildred Haun Review, Still: The Journal, and Clinch Mountain Review, among other publications. Chrissie is currently at work on her fourth book, which is tentatively titled Chasing After Rainbows.

I’ve been writing almost as long as I’ve been reading. Words have always been a comfort and a strength…

READ MY STORY

Chrissie Anderson Peters takes us into the complicated, dark, and beautiful heart of contemporary Appalachia with these intriguing stories, essays, and poems.

Silas House, author of Same Sun Here and Parchment of Leaves

If you’re looking for brave vision in a new voice, Dog Days and Dragonflies is the book for you. Chrissie Anderson Peters’ stories of friendship, hardship, family love and betrayal will stay with you long past the last page

George Ella Lyon, author of She Let Herself Go

Again and again, Chrissie Anderson Peters reminds us about everything that’s magical, revealing the true spirit of Christmas.

Denton Loving, author of Crimes Against Birds

Recent Writing

Year-End Writing Round-Up

Dec 15, 2025 | Writing Life

How did it get to be December 29th already? It seems like only yesterday, I was entering poetry contests, kicking the year off with hopes of making my 50 rejections for 2025. I met my goal, almost double. I had 91 rejections. And 26 acceptances, down a few from the...

My To-Do List for 2026 (in no real particular order after #1)

Dec 13, 2025 | Memoir

Spend more time with Russ when he’s available to spend time with. Find a publishing home for my Langston stories. Try at least three more places to get my chapbook published if it doesn’t work out where it is right now. Revise my memoir and send it out to at least 50...

In Memoriam – Melanie Dawn Hoback and Kevin David Linkous

Nov 15, 2025 | Memoir

I recently lost two high school friends during the same week. It was heartbreaking for me, so I can’t imagine how their families are managing. Melanie Dawn Hoback and I met before we ever started kindergarten. She was, in fact, my oldest childhood friend. We used to...