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
Memory (In Memory of Dr. William C. Robinson)
I remember the semester that Russ and I were planning our wedding and I was taking Social Sciences with Dr Bill Robinson in my Masters classes online through UTK and working full-time in my then-new job at Northeast State Community College. Somehow, no matter the...
Living On A Prayer
I’ve wrestled with this blog post for days, no, for nights now. Because it is at night that I see the disturbing images of people overtaking the Capitol building and looting it and disrupting American government at its core. I don’t write political pieces. I’m not a...
Lady
This coming week, January 5, marks the 19th anniversary of my marriage with Russ, and the 20th anniversary of our first face-to-face meeting. That’s right; as hokey as it sounds, we got married exactly one year from the date that we met face-to-face, having “met” 8...