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Merritt Tierce


Born
Texas, The United States
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Contemporary


Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. She worked in various secretarial and retail positions until 2009, when she moved to Iowa City to attend the Iowa Writers� Workshop as the Meta Rosenberg Fellow.

After graduating in 2011 with her MFA from Iowa, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and she is a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Author.

Merritt is currently the Executive Director of the Texas Equal Access Fund, a Dallas-based nonprofit abortion fund. She has volunteered and worked for the TEA Fund since 2004, and co-wrote the abortion play One in 3 with Gretchen Dyer and Victoria Loe Hicks. One in 3 played to sold-out houses for most of its three-week run and stimulated a local conversation about the reality o ...more

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Love Me Back
3.21 avg rating — 3,675 ratings — published 2014 — 16 editions
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“This is the thing about the service industry, you can get trained to be slick and hospitable in any situation and it serves you well the rest of your life. Once you figure out that everything is performance and you bow to that, learn to modulate, you can dissociate from the mothership of yourself like an astronaut floating in space.”
― Merritt Tierce
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“Accept that shit is fucked up and roll with it...Don't bitch. Just adapt. Nothing is going to go right and everything is going to be hard.”
― Merritt Tierce, Love Me Back
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“I wish I didn’t want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius.”
― Merritt Tierce, Love Me Back
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