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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

Miles Away from Nowhere: Welcome to Langston, Virginia

Aug 14, 2026 | Publications

Welcome to Langston, Virginia, a small town in deep southwestern Virginia, somewhere near the West Virginia state border. Don’t bother looking for it on a map in the real world, though; you won’t find it there. Langston is a fictitious town, as are its neighboring...

Hindman 2026

Aug 12, 2026 | Uncategorized

Once again this year, I made it back to Hindman, along the banks of Troublesome Creek, for the 49th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop. I started Hindman in 2009, went through 2013, took a seven-year hiatus, started back in 2020 when it was online because of covid,...

From Prompt to Pitch

Aug 2, 2026 | Publications, Writing Life

Jim Minick can write any genre. I mean anything. Poetry. Fiction. Nonfiction. Memoir. And he writes every bit of it well. I was excited, then, to see him leading a pre-workshop workshop at Hindman this year called, “From Prompt to Pitch.” The concept was to take a...