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Bethany Pierce

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Mount Vernon, Ohio, The United States

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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. In 2001 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. Publishers Weekly named her first book, Feeling for Bones, one of the top books of 2007.

Presently, Bethany lives in Charlottesville, Virginia where she continues to write and paint as a member of the McGuffey Art Center.

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Bethany Pierce's Blog

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So Long/ Farewell/ Auf Wiedersehen/ Goodnight

For the past few years I've been using this blog to display artwork and talk about writing. Since publishing a new website dedicated somewhat more professionally to both my paintings and books, I've had some difficulty coming up with reasons to keep this blog alive.

The problem is that this year I finally got off my high horse and started reading blogs. And I found some really, really, good ones,

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Bethany Pierce’s books

Average rating: 3.46 · 1,338 ratings · 184 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Feeling for Bones 3.55 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amy Inspired 3.28 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Bethany Pierce (?)

“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.”
― Bethany Pierce, Feeling for Bones

tags: anorexia, anorexic, bulimia, bulimic, depression, eating-disorder, eating-disorders, ed, mental-illness, ocd

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“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion of my body looking back at me everywhere.”
― Bethany Pierce, Feeling for Bones

tags: anorexia, anorexic, eating-disorder, ed, mental-illness, ocd, tw

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“The torments of my mind and the source of my hell now fit into a prescribed form. They had always had a name.”
― Bethany Pierce, Feeling for Bones

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