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 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.

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.

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 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.

The novels and short stories she makes are suspense thriller fictions. She finds it challenging and dark to write stories with the edgy, mysterious theme. She also writes stories that she found inspiration from her travels around the world. Writing will always be in her veins. She sees herself after two decades from now, still writing wonderful stories. She has plans to travel the world and discovering new things again. But, she just cannot put down the new novel she is creating right now.




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