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
After All the Thrill is Gone
I fell in love with Duran Duran on the Friday night the week after Thanksgiving week in 1984. Yes, I remember it that specifically. It was at my friend Pam’s house. Neither of us had MTV. We lived so far out in the sticks that we couldn’t get MTV, so we got our weekly...
The Body in Your Bed
Beauty is the eye of the one who looks at the overall situation. There's something precious in almost anything, if examined in the proper light. Let's talk about something so many tend either to gloss over, or to brutally attack: the body in your bed. No matter who...
Hire Yourself
Every once in a while, I sit in on a session of writing prompts provided by Nickole Brown and her wife, Jessica Jacobs. Only occasionally, because they’re poetry prompts. And there are wicked-talented professional-level poets who tune in for this group and I feel...