Angela Belcher Epps
Author

Staying Grounded in a Frantic World

Publications

To Be Released 2024: short story in Minerva Rising

North Carolina Literary Review 2022
 (Honorable Mention: Alex Albright Prize) "Those Awful Family Trees"

North Carolina Literary Review 2019
 (Honorable Mention: Alex Albright Prize) "Sandhill: A Symphony of Souls"

ESSENCE magazine: "Sand Hill Girl" an essay

 
Workers Write! (a Blue Cubicle Press chapbook, 2020) OT56: STRIKES

 


I write about tight, frenetic, urban settings and the more spacious, yet complex dynamics of rural living. Though born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I spent several childhood years in rural eastern North Carolina, so I define myself as a southern New Yorker.

I've written since childhood, but I've also 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 that address issues related to loss, abandonment, enterprising women, hard-working men, resilient children, and the value of authenticity.


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 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 and continues to provide workshops and resources for groups and online. You can visit her at angelabelcherepps.com

Author, educator

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



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 poet Lenard D. Moore and journalist Bridgette A. Lacy



 "Making Time: An Interview with Angela Belcher Epps"
Main Street Rag Publishing Company

Review: How to stay grounded after abandonment
AliceOsborn.com
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