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Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first book, the novel Love Me Back, won a Whiting Award and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize for debut fiction. She was a National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' author and received a Rona Jaffe Foundation award. Merritt wrote for the last two seasons of the hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black, and her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Yale Review and other magazines. She has been an invited fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, BAU Camargo, Can Cab, Art Omi and other residencies. She spent ten years working in the abortion rights movement in Texas and now lives in Los Angeles. |
