Angela Belcher Epps

Angela Belcher Epps is the author of a novella, Salt in the Sugar Bowl (Main Street Rag, 2013). 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). Her stories and essays have appeared in Workers Write (a chapbook); the North Carolina Literary Review; Essence Magazine; Main Street Rag; moonShine Review; When Women Awaken; Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, and others. She’s a past recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council creative nonfiction grant and a Wildacres writing residency. Visit her website: angelabelcherepps.com

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Michael Twitty

Michael W. Twitty is a culinary historian and food writer living in  Fredericksburg, Virginia. He blogs at Afroculinaria.com. He’s appeared on Bizarre Foods America with Andrew Zimmern, Many Rivers to

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin

Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the Poet Laureate of the City of Columbia. She received the MFA in Poetry from the University of South Carolina. Her debut book of poetry, Traveling

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