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.

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.

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 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.

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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