Friday, April 25, 2014

Learn About The Life Of Lindsay Merbaum

By Essie Osborn


A writer will always be a writer. She is in love with words and stories. She will always be creating wonderful novels that will captivate you. Lindsay Merbaum is a writer extraordinaire. She is one passionate writer who lives and breathe poetry, words and literature. She is one inspiring work of art.

She is a traveler and a free spirit by heart. She yearns and enjoys to travel different countries to learn more about their culture. By profession, she is a fiction writer, content creator and editor. She earned her Masteral Degree in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College. She got her chance of a lifetime, when she was awarded with a scholarship. She travelled to Lisbon to avail her Disquiet International Literary Program.

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 grew up reading books while living on the East Coast. She sees herself as an introvert who chooses to be in a company of two or three friends, than a large group of people. Aside from writing fiction, she also listens to jazz music, and enjoys cooking if she is not busy creating novels.

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.

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.




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