Lindsay Merbaum

Fiction Writer

Flint, MI
Michigan US
Email: 
lmerbaum@gmail.com
Website: 
lmerbaum.com
Twitter/X: 
@lindsaymerbaum

Author's Bio

Lindsay Merbaum is a queer feminist author and high priestess of home mixology. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she earned her MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was a recipient of the Himan Brown Award. Her award-nominated short fiction has appeared in PANK, Anomalous Press, The Collagist, Epiphany, Gargoyle, Day One, Harpur Palate, and Hobart, among others. Her essays and interviews can also be found in Electric Literature, Bustle, Bitch Media, The Rumpus, and more. Lindsay lives in Michigan with her partner and cats and serves as an editor of book reviews at Necessary Fiction. Her first novel, THE GOLD PERSIMMON, will be released from Creature Publishing in October, 2021. 

Literary agent: 
Kate Garrick, Salky Literary Management

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Best of Our Stories (Our Stories, 2010)
,
Best of the Web (Dzanc Books, 2009)
Book:
The Gold Persimmon (Creature Publishing, 2021)
Journals:
Anomalous Press
,
Blood Orange Review
,
Day One
,
Epiphany
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
Ghost Town
,
Gingerbread House
,
Harpur Palate
,
Hobart
,
Lost Coast Review
,
MacGuffin
,
Our Stories
,
Pank
,
Collagist
,
Sojourn
,
The Brooklyn Review
,
WhiskeyPaper
Prizes won: 

Lindsay has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her story "Cannibal Love," anthologized in Dzanc Books Best of the Web, was nominated for a storySouth Million Writers Award. In 2005, she received the Himan Brown Award for Fiction from Brooklyn College.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, At Risk Youth, Incarcerated individuals, LGBTQ, Teachers, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Feb 26, 2021