About E.P. Floyd
— E.P. Floyd is a writer, editor, and translator living in rural Wisconsin.
E.P. Floyd
E.P. Floyd holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is former blog editor, weekly content manager, and flash prose editor, as well as a past blogger, assistant blog editor, and featured interviewer for Lunch Ticket. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Litbreak Magazine, Reservoir Journal, and BusinessWeek. Floyd graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a bachelor's degree in journalism. She is at work on a novel, a motley crew of flash stories, an incidental collection of personal essays, critical essays, author interviews, and translations. She lives in rural Wisconsin.
Sadly, in the end, and to the great relief of my husband, pup, and in-laws, I’ve decided not to attend AWP in 2020. It was a difficult decision and one I did not make lightly, especially because I was so looking forward to talking with writers on immigrant rights, borderlands writings, and bilingual and translingual projects—and I had booked my hotel 11 months in advance.
In November 2018, I found out I have a little sister in Salt Lake City, a daughter of the same biological father neither of us has ever met. My dear friend Audre, known for her ability to evoke and portray genuine, gorgeous human emotion in her work, offered to take some photos of my new little sister and me. This piece is honest, raw, and—we hope—impactful. I grappled with a lot of emotions in this writing process, both my feelings and trying to be as cognizant as possible of others’ security and comfort. What follows in this blog post is our first photo essay collaboration: audre rae photography x E.P. Floyd.
I have a personal essay up this week on Three Guys, One Book about how and when I fell in love—with reading. My essay focuses on who provided me with the books: my late grandpa, who died when I was 8, of esophageal cancer. He was only 52. Even though I didn’t get to spend more than those 8 years with him, he guided and influenced my life so much, most notably because he would bring me books with torn-off covers that he rescued from being pulverized or incinerated at a publishing company in Milwaukee.
I have my first personal essay for Lunch Ticket up on the blog now! You can read it here. It’s about food justice and access, and I wrote it as a menu of sorts to describe my history eating and exploring food, from living on a one-parent income on the south side of Milwaukee to working for an organic family farm in rural Wisconsin.
Litbreak Magazine published an excerpt from my novel-in-progress on July 3. Cheetos make an appearance in the piece, which you can read here.
An almost-complete list of everything I read during my first low-residency MFA semester.
Minimizing in-person social contact—creating social distance of at least six feet or more—is essential to flattening the curve during this global pandemic.