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]
- 2015 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction[11]
- 2013 National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honoree[12]
- 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[13]
Residencies[]
Bibliography[]
Novels[]
- Love Me Back. Doubleday Books. 2014. ISBN 978-0-3458-0713-7.
Short stories[]
- "Casa Linda." D Magazine. 2017.
- "Calvin D. Colson."[17] 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[]
- "The Abortion I Didn't Have." The New York Times Magazine. 2021.
- "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[]
- ^ "Merritt Tierce". Merritt Tierce. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Merritt Tierce on Iowa, Comma Usage, and Her Debut Novel, Love Me Back". Barnes & Noble Reads. 2014-09-26. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ Hamilton, Brentney (2011-09-20). "Merritt Tierce Wins Rona Jaffe Award: Dallas Feminists, Literature Nerds Rejoice". Dallas Observer. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Abortion Rights Groups Say It's Time To Stop Playing Defense". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Merritt Tierce". PEN America. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Merritt Tierce". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Writers' Workshop alum receives Whiting award". The Gazette. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Finalists Reading: Debut Fiction from the 2015 PEN Literary Awards". PEN America. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Texas Institute of Letters: Awards 1936-2021" (PDF). www.texasinstituteofletters.org. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
- ^ "5 Under 35 2013". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Post". Rona. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "Merritt Tierce - Artist". MacDowell Colony. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- ^ "About Willapa Bay AiR Residents". www.willapabayair.org. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ "Residents". Can Cab. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
- ^ "19: Hauntings". PEN America. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
Categories:
- American short story writers
- American essayists
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- University of Iowa faculty
- Writers from Los Angeles
- Novelists from Texas
- Living people
- American women short story writers
- American women essayists
- American women novelists
- Novelists from California
- American women academics