Merrit Tierce

Merritt Tierce’s novel LOVE ME BACK won the 2014 Texas Institute of Letters' Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. LOVE ME BACK was also shortlisted for the PEN/Bingham prize for debut fiction and named a best book of 2014 by The Chicago Tribune and Electric Literature. Merritt's writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and Southwest Review, among other magazines and publications. Merritt served as the Executive Director of the Texas Equal Access Fund, a Dallas-based nonprofit abortion fund, from 2011 until 2014. She volunteered and worked for the TEA Fund from its founding in 2004, and co-wrote the abortion play One in 3 with Gretchen Dyer and Victoria Loe Hicks.