Wednesday 23 April 2014

An Author And Wanderer Lindsay Merbaum

By Essie Osborn


Writing is her passion. She breathes, eats, sleeps, and lives for writing wonderful novels and making them a part of the daily life of people. Reading her wonderful novels will keep you asking and wondering. You can never put down a book when the author is no other than, Lindsay Merbaum.

Lindsay is a famous fiction writer, editor and content creator. She got her Masters Degree, at the age of twenty four, in Brooklyn College, majoring in Fine Arts. She is also a free spirit wanderer, travelling in several places abroad. In the summer of 2012, she was awarded with a scholarship to attend the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.

She joined a writing competition in Brooklyn College, fall of 2005 and it earned her another award. She vested the Himan Brown Award along with other fiction writers and playwrights enrolled in the Creative Writing Department of Brooklyn College. The award giving body was headed by the benefactor himself, Himan Brown. He is a famous radio personality, who have produced a number of award winning radio series.

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.

The famous writer was also a teacher. She was living in Quito, Ecuador where she works as an English composition teacher at a University. She is fond of travelling and want to gain teaching experience. She lived in Ecuador for four years.

In 2010, she left Ecuador ad relocated to California. Some of her stories have appeared in a number of magazines and journals, such as the Epiphany, Gargoyle, PANK, The Collagist, and Dzanc Books Best of the Web. Her masterpiece has also been nominated for a story South Award, and for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories series.

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.

Lindsay now lives in San Francisco with her husband. She is currently working on a novel, The Wailing Room. The story revolves around Clytemnestra, a lovely and mysterious hotel employee with a dual identity. It also narrates three hotel guests grappling with painful secrets and revelations. The story depicts a portrait of a New York City hotel offering guests every possible luxury, along with complete privacy and anonymity.

Lindsay is now living in San Francisco together with her husband. The mystery and challenge she feels when writing suspense novels, is her driving force in creating more. She is also inspired by her travels around the world and thinks of writing about it someday. Right now, she cannot put down in writing the finishing words of her novel, The Wailing Room.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment