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    Merritt Tierce, Fiction

    by Merritt Tierce Mar 20, 2019 2 minutes

    Merritt Tierce. Photo: Kent Barker.

    Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2011 and was a 2013 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Her first book, the novel (Doubleday, 2014), was shortlisted for the /Robert W. Bingham Prize for, , , and other publications. Merritt currently writes for the Netflix show . She lives in Los Angeles and is at work on a book of autofiction about men, sex, writing, the internet, depression, being a woman, physicality, and television.

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