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Merritt Tierce

Biography

Merritt Tierce

Merritt Tierce, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, was born and raised in Texas, and graduated from college at the age of 19. She received her MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was named a Meta Rosenberg Fellow. In 2011, she was a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Merritt lives near Dallas with her husband and children.

Merritt Tierce

Books by Merritt Tierce

by Merritt Tierce - Fiction

Marie, a young single mother, lands a job at an upscale Dallas steakhouse where she quickly learns to hide her private struggle behind an easy smile and a crisp white apron. In a world of long hours and late nights, where everything runs on a currency of favors, cash and cachet, Marie loses herself in a tangle of bodies and the kind of coke that 'napalms your emotional synapses.' LOVE ME BACK is an unapologetic portrait of a woman cutting a precarious path through early adulthood.