Author Talk – Bristol Public Library

Bristol Public Library is hosting an Author Talk on March 27 at 6:00 pm in the J. Henry Kegley Meeting Room. Chrissie Anderson Peters, author of Dog Days and Dragonflies, Running From Crazy, and Blue Ridge Christmas, will be joined by Rebecca Elswick, author of Mama’s Shoes and No Stopping Her, for a special author conversation. They will share their stories and talk about their latest works.

Chrissie Anderson Peters lives in Bristol, Tennessee. She holds degrees from Emory & Henry College and the University of Tennessee. She has been published or is forthcoming in Women of Appalachia Project, Red Branch Review, Untelling, Salvation South, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cutleaf, and others. She lives with her husband, Russ, and three feline sons, and loves all things 80s-related.

Rebecca Elswick lives in the mountains of southwestern Virginia where she was born, the daughter and granddaughter of coal miners. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, among them Deep South, Still: The Journal, and Drafthorse. Her new novel, The Dream is the Truth was released on February 4, 2025 from Artemesia Publishing. Her award-winning debut novel, Mama’s Shoes (2011) was published by Writer’s Digest, the result of winning a contest. No Stopping Her was published in 2015 by Gemma Media’s Open Door Series for Adult Literacy. She also authored a teacher’s manual/workbook to accompany the book. Rebecca is a lifelong teacher. She has an MFA from West VA Wesleyan College, and an MEd. in Education from East Tennessee State University. She is currently a consultant for Buchanan County Schools and the Appalachian Writing Project at UVA Wise.

For more information, please check out our library website; www.bristol-library.org