mardi 22 avril 2014

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.

She earned her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College. She was also a recipient of the Himan Brown Award in the same college. Himan Brown Award winners were determined through a writing competition, which first started in 2005. Lindsay was one of the first receivers of the award. Himan Brown, an influential radio producer founded the awards himself.

Brooklyn College offers the MFA program to playwrights, poets and fiction writers. It is a two year, highly personal program that gathers Fine Arts students. It generally offers one on one tutorials, seminars and workshops. And they value faculty and student relations.

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.

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 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 is now a permanent resident of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, whom she says, have to put up with her busy schedule writing her new novel, The Wailing Room. The story is set in a New York City Hotel. And revolves around the character of Clymentera, a beautiful and mysterious employee in the hotel with a dual personality. It also depicts the story of three hotel guests with dark pasts and painful secrets.

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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