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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…

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

80s Cruise 2025

Apr 18, 2025 | Memoir, Music

Another 80s Cruise has come and gone. And it went way too fast, of course. In most ways. Tragedy struck early. Our first show in Studio B on Sunday night was Faster Pussycat, a band I knew only one song by, which is not uncommon for some of the harder rock/metal...

Take It to the Limit

Apr 15, 2025 | Music, Travel

Unlike any concert experience I've ever had! Almost like a 3-D movie-scape that 17,600 people have just been dropped into, the immersive experience "takes you" into whatever content has been created for the songs being performed. It’s like we’re all in every video...

Wild, Wild West

Apr 15, 2025 | Memoir, Music

On Sunday, April, 13, we traveled to Grand Canyon West. Our first stop was Joshua Tree Forest in Arizona, just past Dolan Springs, AZ. I'm familiar with the Joshua Tree only because that's the name of the immensely popular U2 album that solidified their chart-topping...