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)
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. The grit of both places strengthened me. Gave me the mindset that I'm up to the challenge of facing whatever life brings. 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. Lessons learned over decades inform my fiction about everyday characters who use their wits and common sense to thrive, My nonfiction captures experiences that taught me, step-by-step, about courage and integrity.
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).
She seeks publication of her novel manuscript, The House That Built Us, short listed for Blair Publishers 2024 Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose. Additionally, she seeks a publisher for her collection of flash essays Staying Grounded in a Frantic World: Lessons Learned
for which she received a United Arts Council Artist Support Grant.
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"
