Biography
Bethany Pierce was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio to a Nazarene minister and an elementary school art teacher who encouraged the reading of books by storing the television on a microwave stand in the hall closet. At eighteen she enrolled in Miami University’s College of Art to study painting, staying a fifth year to complete a master’s degree in Creative Writing. Her artwork has been exhibited in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Austin. Publisher’s Weekly recently named her first book, Feeling for Bones, one of the top Christian books of 2007. Presently, she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where she is working in a follow-up novel.
