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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

Stage Presence

Sep 11, 2025 | Music

I have taken a couple months off from blogs. Shame on me. I’ve just been so insanely busy traveling and going to workshops, etc., I couldn’t find the time to get it all done. And I sincerely apologize to anyone who keeps up with me and the reading/writing...

Three-Workshop Summer

Sep 11, 2025 | Writing Life

I mentioned I’ve been busy this summer. There have been entire weeks when I have been home only one day that week and have had something going on that day that kept me from being at home longer than enough time to unpack from one thing and repack for the next thing....

Writing Matters

Sep 11, 2025 | Awards

My work with Lost State Writers Guild’s Board and Tennessee Mountain Writers’ Board continues. I have stepped down as Special Events Chair in TMW for various reasons, but I remain on that committee and on the Publicity Committee. Both organizations took off the month...