Merritt Tierce

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

Awards and honors

2019 Whiting Award 2015 PEN Literary Awards Finalist 2015 Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction 2013 National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honoree 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award

Residencies

2017 MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2017 Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence Can Cab Residency