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Merritt Tierce is an American short story author, story editor, essayist, activist, and novelist.[1] Tierce was born in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving her MFA in Fiction in 2011.[2] She previously taught at the University of Iowa.[3] She was a founding board member of the Texas Equal Access Fund and previously worked as Executive Director of the TEA.[4][5][6] She currently resides in Los Angeles and is a writer for Orange is the New Black.[7]

Awards and honors

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Residencies

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Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Love Me Back. Doubleday Books. 2014. ISBN 978-0-3458-0713-7.

Short stories

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Essays

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Other work

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Tierce was a writer for seasons six and seven of Orange is the New Black.[18]

Early life and education

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Tierce grew up in Texas in a strongly Christian household.[18] She graduated from Abilene Christian University at 1997[19] with a Bachelors degree, age 19, having started college two years early.[18] Slated to start a graduate program at Yale School of Divinity the next year, her plans changed due to a pregnancy and ensuing marriage to the father of her unborn child, an event she sardonically described as a child bride in a shotgun wedding.[18] (She never went to Yale, but earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop[20] about fifteen years later.)[18]

Tierce was unable to consider abortion due to her religious beliefs at the time (she had written and presented against it while unknowingly pregnant).[18] She also couldn't consider giving up her first child to adoption,

The couple had a second child, a daughter, about a year later.[19] They eventually divorced, continued an amicable co-parenting.[18] Tierce remarried around age 36, and has a stepdaughter.[19]

References

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  1. ^ "Merritt Tierce". Merritt Tierce. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  2. ^ "Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". writersworkshop.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  3. ^ "Merritt Tierce on Iowa, Comma Usage, and Her Debut Novel, Love Me Back". Barnes & Noble Reads. 2014-09-26. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Brentney (2011-09-20). "Merritt Tierce Wins Rona Jaffe Award: Dallas Feminists, Literature Nerds Rejoice". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  5. ^ Lohr, Kathy (29 December 2013). "Abortion Rights Groups Say It's Time To Stop Playing Defense". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  6. ^ "Merritt Tierce". PEN America. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  7. ^ "How novelist Merritt Tierce left Texas to become a staff writer for 'Orange Is the New Black'". Dallas News. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  8. ^ "Merritt Tierce". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  9. ^ "Writers' Workshop alum receives Whiting award". The Gazette. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  10. ^ "Finalists Reading: Debut Fiction from the 2015 PEN Literary Awards". PEN America. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  11. ^ "Texas Institute of Letters: Awards 1936-2021" (PDF). www.texasinstituteofletters.org. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  12. ^ "5 Under 35 2013". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  13. ^ "Post". Rona. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  14. ^ "Merritt Tierce - Artist". MacDowell Colony. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  15. ^ "About Willapa Bay AiR Residents". www.willapabayair.org. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  16. ^ "Residents". Can Cab. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  17. ^ "19: Hauntings". PEN America. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g Tierce, Merritt (2021-12-02). "The Abortion I Didn't Have". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  19. ^ a b c "Merritt Tierce". Texas Monthly. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  20. ^ "about". Merritt Tierce. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
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