chrissie anderson peters
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…
Recent Writing
On Feverdream from the Road
Many thanks to Renée Nicholson for guest-blogging this month and sharing her exciting work with us. Renée and I met at the WV Writers Conference in 2024 and hit it off immediately. She has been quite gracious to me with her time and talents, and I’m honored to call...
Bristol Public Library Open House
As many of you know, I am a degreed librarian. No longer practicing, but that’s what my master’s degree is in — Information Sciences. I love libraries. They’ve always been some of my favorite places to hang out. You can get just about anything at the public library —...
Welcome to Wherever You Are
You know me as a Duranie. The internet knows me as a Duranie —seriously, do a Google search for Chrissie and Duran Duran and AI brings up information about me, not the lyrics to a song they wrote that appears on their first album with my name in it. Freaky! But ever...