Angela Belcher Epps
Author
Staying Grounded in a Frantic World
Read my work
Minerva Rising'Press: The Keeping Room
North Carolina Literary Review
(Honorable Mention: Alex Albright Prize)
North Carolina Literary Review
(Honorable Mention: Alex Albright Prize)
Salt in the Sugar Bowl, a novella
Workers Write! (a Blue Cubicle Press chapbook) OT56: STRIKES
Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying
(heart2heart)
("Stitching the Seams of Loss" sample online)
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective
(Blair, 2020)
Though born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I spent several childhood years in rural eastern North Carolina. I define myself as a southern New Yorker. I've worked as a television technician, an educational grant writer, a high school English teacher, and a special education case manager for young adults.
Each phase continues to inform my realistic fiction and creative nonfiction. I write about becoming resilient, growing and learning from life experiences, and finding courage and integrity to travel our own paths..
BIO
Angela Belcher Epps writes fiction and personal essays and is the author of a novella Salt in the Sugar Bowl
(Main Stree t 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).
She seeks publication of her novel manuscript, The House That Built Us, recently short listed for Blair Publishers 2024 Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose. Additionally, she's seeking a publisher for her creative nonfiction guide for which she received a United Arts Council Artist Support Grant.
For nearly two decades, Belcher Epps 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 https://www.angelabelcherepps.com
Click below for links to reviews, interviews, and such.
WUNC Radio interview re: debut of anthology, All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective With writer Angela Belcher Epps, poet Lenard D. Moore, and journalist Bridgette A. Lacy
WUNC NPR "The State of Things"
