About Me

Photo by Gabrielle Brant Freeman

Angela Raper is a writer from North Carolina who specializes in Southern contemporary and historical fiction and creative nonfiction. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College, and she teaches at East Carolina University.

She is a knitter and a lifelong geek girl. Those two things often overlap.

She wears red lipstick with Star Wars t-shirts.

When she isn’t writing, she enjoys reading, knitting, and spoiling her pets.

What People Say

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss