Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Lindsay Merbaum Is A Novelist Extraordinaire

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 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.

Enrolling in the Masters Program of the Fine Arts Department in Brooklyn allows you to understand the importance of faculty and student collaboration. It is a small and highly personal program that gathers degree holders in Fine Arts. Those who majored in fiction, playwriting and poetry can enroll in the program for two years. They offer workshops, tutorials and seminars to students.

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.

She left Ecuador in 2010, and transferred to California. And started to write again. Some of her masterpieces were nominated in some award giving bodies for story writing like story South Award, and Best American Short stories series. Her works were featured in magazines like, The Gargoyle, Collagist, PANK and the Epiphany, to name a few.

She would rather be in the company of books, reading till the wee hours of the night, than socializing with people. She grew up in the East Coast with an interest of fictional books, since she was young. She considers herself a home buddy, who loves to cook, listen to jazz music, or studying literature. That is if she is not so hooked up in a story.

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.




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