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.