My stories feature adults muddling through unsavory situations that ultimately teach them enough to grow a bit. I throw in some children who are at the mercy of adults in the process of figuring things out. My essays point to lessons I've learned during my own muddy seasons because I write to understand how to stay grounded and happy no matter what life brings.  Learning and growing as we go prepares us to handle what we can't see coming. I'm an optimist. I call myself a southern New Yorker because I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York but spent several childhood years in rural eastern North Carolina then returned in order to live closer to nature. I've written since childhood, but I've  worked as an AT&T technician, an educational grant writer, a high school English teacher, and a case manager for young adults with disabilities.  All those experiences contributed to my fascination with everyday folks who use their wits and common sense to thrive.

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, Blue Cubicle Press Chapbook: Workers Write, Main Street Rag, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, andEssence 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 which was  short listed for Blair Publishers 2024 Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose. Additionally, she has recently completed a collection of flash essays Staying Grounded in a Frantic World: Lessons Learned for which she received a United Arts Council Artist Support Grant. 

 Author, educator

Read more about my journey 
 Here: 

 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"

"Midtown author's book   

offers a tale of healing"

The Raleigh News & Observer