Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas. After graduating from high school at nineteen, she worked as a waitress for a decade before attending a writing workshop in Iowa. She was a teenage and single mother. With his first novel, Que que quiero me, in which he narrates the desperate life of a waitress with sex as an escape, he won the Steven Turner Award for best debut and was a finalist in the PEN | Bingham Highlighted by newspapers like The New York Times as one of the sharpest and most promising voices of the new American narrative, and included in the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 of 2013, her novel was named the best debut of 2014 by headers such as The Chicago Tribune and Electric Literature. But to understand what Merritt Tierce is like, it is necessary to know his work as an activist. She was executive director of the Texas Equal Access Fund, a non-profit foundation that fights for the right to abort without stigmata. He also co-wrote the play One in 3, on the same theme, with the intention of opening the debate wherever it was represented.