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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

Publishing Class (Part 1)

Feb 16, 2023 | Writing Life

This month, I have been taking a Publishing Class with the amazing Diane Zinna via Zoom. I learned about Dianna through my 7:00 a.m. Writing Prompts Group, Rules Schmoolz. Our leader, Connie, took it last year. I think there are five of us from the group taking it...

First Kiss

Feb 15, 2023 | Memoir

The first kiss I ever remember getting was from one of my mom’s boyfriends when I was somewhere between 1-2 years old and we lived in Ypsilanti, Michigan. My father had left us when I was not quite six months old, so we moved to Michigan to live with my Papaw Little,...

Anniversary

Feb 3, 2023 | Memoir

Here we are. Anniversary #21! If our marriage were a person, it could drink legally now. It would have been drinking for many years, anyway, but it would just be legal now, lol! Last year, we had the fantabulous getaway to Williamsburg, where we stayed in one of the...