Merritt Tierce

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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]

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Awards and honors

Residencies

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Other work

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

Early life and education

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]

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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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