Robin Hobb does epic heroic fantasy. She was doing interesting cliche-subverting things in the Farseer trilogy, but she completely lost the plot in the Tawny Man and put the cliches right back. I wonder if the earlier stuff she wrote as Megan Lindholm is any better.
N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy is definitely epic fantasy, but not exactly in the same genre -- less subversion of Tolkienesque McEuropean fantasy; more original worldbuilding.
I can't think of anyone else right now, but I'm not a big fantasy reader.
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N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy is definitely epic fantasy, but not exactly in the same genre -- less subversion of Tolkienesque McEuropean fantasy; more original worldbuilding.
I can't think of anyone else right now, but I'm not a big fantasy reader.