vendredi 18 avril 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.

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.

Known as a famous writer, Lindsay is also a teacher by profession a few years back. She is fond of travelling and wants to gain more experience in teaching. She accepted the offer and taught in Quito, Ecuador as an English teacher.

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 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.

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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