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Merritt TierceMerritt 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
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BibliographyNovels
Short stories
Essays
Other workTierce was a writer for seasons six and seven of Orange is the New Black.[18] Early life and educationTierce 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] References
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