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

Let’s Get Physical

Let’s Get Physical

My gastric bypass surgery was almost two years ago. It feels much longer than that. I’ve done well. I’ve kept the weight off, for the most part, and was holding pretty steady through this past winter. Which wasn’t where my bariatric surgeon wanted me to be. This has...

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Getting Things in Order

Getting Things in Order

Last August at Table Rock, a few of us lamented about wanting to take a chapbook class, but there were none to be found. Sue Dunlap Weaver came back, “What if I could talk Connie Green into doing one at her house in Lenoir City for about 10-12 of us?” We were giddy...

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Write It Down

Write It Down

It has been a while since I’ve written about my writing activities, so I’ll back up a little to include the past couple of months. At the end of March, I went to Denton’s for a week (March 20-27) to get some writing done. I came away with four poems, a couple of other...

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