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

Dog Days and Dragonflies
Running From Crazy
Blue Ridge Christmas

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

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

My Body Is a ONE-derland

My Body Is a ONE-derland

June 19th was the second anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery. It's not a surgery that is “done” and is then just over – I keep dealing with what happened every single day, if I want it to be a success. I have to eat a certain way – certain things are “off the...

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Literary Happenings

Literary Happenings

I was excited not to be traveling anywhere this month that required a suitcase. I thought the month would be a slow-down month. It turned out to be quite eventful, in spite of no packed bags, and it still has nine days to go. I started the month with my Lost State...

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The Eyes of a Stranger

The Eyes of a Stranger

“For rumors in the wake of such a lonely crowd.” – “The Seventh Stranger,” Duran Duran   “Why are you selling your clothes? Mainly Duran Duran items?” It was 2:44 a.m., and I had awakened to go to the bathroom but looked at my Facebook messages in case there was...

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