Merritt Tierce

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

• 2019 Whiting Foundation Award[8][9]
• 2015 PEN Literary Awards Finalist[10]
• 2013 National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honoree[11]
• 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[12]

Residencies

• 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship[13]
• 2017 Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence[14]
• Can Cab Residency[15]

Bibliography

Novels

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

Short stories

• "Casa Linda." D Magazine. 2017.
• "Calvin D. Colson."[16] PEN America #19: Hauntings. 2016.
• "Solitaire." Oxford American. 2014.
• "Everything I Did in Madrid." H.O.W. Journal. 2014.
• "Suck It." Southwest Review and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best. 2008.

Essays

• "Distributed Denial of Service." Granta. 2019.
• "Author Merritt Tierce's Brief Stint as a Mailman." D Magazine. 2017.
• "What to Read If You Care About Access to Abortion in Trump's America." LitHub. 2017.
• "At Sea." The Paris Review. 2016.
• "I Published My Debut Novel to Critical Acclaim--And Then I Promptly Went Broke." Marie Claire. 2016.
• "Why I'm Still Infuriated About Abortion Access in Texas." Cosmopolitan. 2016.
• "This is What an Abortion Looks Like." The New York Times. 2014.
• "World Cup." Electric Lit. 2014.

References

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. "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. "5 Under 35 2013". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
12. "Post". Rona. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
13. "Merritt Tierce - Artist". MacDowell Colony. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
14. "About Willapa Bay AiR Residents". www.willapabayair.org. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
15. "Residents". Can Cab. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
16. "19: Hauntings". PEN America. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2020-02-07.

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