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Epps attended St. Christopher's School and Harvard College, where he was the President of The Harvard Crimson.

He later received an M. A.

in Creative Writing from Hollins University, and a law degree from Duke University, where he was first in his class.

After graduation from Harvard, he was a co-founder of The Richmond Mercury, a short-lived alternative weekly whose alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Frank Rich and Glenn Frankel.

He also worked as an editor or reporter for The Richmond Afro-American, The Virginia Churchman, The Free-Lance Star, and The Washington Post.

From 1983 until 1988, he was a columnist for Independent Weekly ( then a bi-weekly ).

Immediately before coming to the University of Oregon, he spent a year clerking for the Honorable John D. Butzner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.