4/19/2014

An Author And Wanderer Lindsay Merbaum

By Essie Osborn


Doing something that you like most makes you complete as a person. Even if it is a job or a personal hobby, it makes you happy. Lindsay Merbaum feels the same way when it comes to writing. She is one heck of an author whose passion for writing is burning. Once you read one of her works, you will be wanting to read her other works.

Lindsay grew up in the East Coast and began her passion for books at an early age. She is an editor, content writer for famous online book blogs and sites and a fiction novelist by heart. She also has a passion for travelling different places and learning their culture. She was awarded a scholarship for the Disquiet International Literary Program. And allowed her to travel in Lisbon in the year two thousand twelve.

In the year 2005, she was honored to receive the Himan Brown Award for Fiction from Brooklyn College. Himan Brown was one of the most influential producers in radio history. A writing competition was held in the fall was open to all playwrights and fiction writers enrolled in the Brooklyn College Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Lindsay was one of the few pioneer winners of the First Himan Brown Awards in 2005.

The MFA program at Brooklyn College is a small, highly personal two year program than confers a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction, poetry and playwriting. It offers seminars, workshops and one on one tutorials. It stresses the importance between faculty and student relationship.

Lindsay, a known fiction writer is also an ex teacher. For four years, she taught English composition at a University in Quito, Ecuador. She wants to gain new experience and loves to travel so she grabbed the chance of living in the foreign country.

Four years after, she left Ecuador and settled in California. Her stories have received citations in the Best American Short Stories, and have been nominated in the South Award. They were also printed in most journals and magazines like the PANK, The Collagist, Dzanc Books Best, Gargoyle and Epiphany.

She considers herself a highly social introvert. She grows from the covers of books she was reading when she was young, in the East Coast. Her number one love interest is fiction writing. She also enjoys listening to jazz music. During her past time when she is not creating stories, she loves to cook. She is also a wanderer by heart and into literature.

She is currently working on her newest claims, The Wailing Room. The story takes place in a typical New York City luxury hotel, which offers privacy to their clients, but some dark secrets hidden in the closet. It narrates the story of Clymentera, a lovely employee with a split personality, and three guests of the hotel who are haunted with their painful past.

She loves writing novels with a suspense thriller theme. She feels her blood pumping wild while writing challenging and mysterious stories. She also gets inspiration from travelling in different places around the globe. She plans to travel again and learn different cultures. But, that would have to wait. She has a story to finish. Creating stories will always be with her. And even when she is old enough to have grandkids, she will still be writing.




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