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
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...
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...
80s Cruise 2025
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...