I've worked as a television technician, a high school English teacher, a special education teacher, and an educational grant writer. Each life experience informs my realistic fiction and creative nonfiction. I'm partial to subjects related to 1) healing, 2) becoming resilient, and 3) being authentic in this era of too much copycat fever.

My manuscript, The House That Built Us, is short listed for Blair Publishers 2024 Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose. (Stay Tuned!)

I'm currently finishing a "memoirish" guide about lessons learned to get and stay grounded. (Thanks to the NC Arts Council for supporting this project.)

BIO

Angela Belcher Epps writes fiction and personal essays and is the author of a novella Salt in the Sugar Bowl (Main Street Rag, 2013). Her work has been featured in such publications as the North Carolina Literary Review, Workers Write, Main Street Rag, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, and Essence Magazine. She has contributed to three anthologies: All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective (Blair, 2020), Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying (heart2heart, 2019), and Gumbo for the Soul: The Recipe for Literacy in the Black Community (iUniverse, Inc., 2007). Angela also writes to propose creative solutions to contemporary challenges. 

She received a 2021 United Arts Council Artist Support Grant for creative nonfiction, a Wildacres Residency, and earned Honorable Mention for two rounds of the North Carolina Literary Review's Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize. 

For nearly two decades, she wrote competitive grants to fund educational and community projects for populations at risk. She continues to provide grant writing workshops and resources. You can visit her at angelabelcherepps.com

Read about my writing journey in this interview: Hofstra University's March 2022 Alum of the Month: