Updated December 2009
Lindsay Scaccia
Marshall University, West Virginia
Author Bio
I've been writing for about 10 years now (since sometime in 1999). As a poet I've been published in 4 contests and a chapbook, as well as in a local writing project at the public library. I write fiction, essays, and poetry. Among my prose works I've written historical fiction, young adult fiction, and fantasy. Sometimes I write poetry in Spanish. My writing has been greatly influenced by Stephen King, Mark Twain, and Robert Frost. Other authors who've influenced me are Ray Bradbury, the brothers Grimm, Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett, and most recently Tolstoy (Leo and Alexis) and Dostoyevsky.
My very first story was gore for the sake of gore. I wrote it for school in fifth grade, where the prompt was something about the teacher bringing in some type of burlap bag and we were supposed to write about what was in it. In my story, it was a psychotic billy-bumbler (a creature from Stephen King's series The Dark Tower; it's kind of a squirrel/dog that can mimic sounds) that killed everyone. Thus began my short-lived horror-writing career.
As a poet I have a preoccupation with angels, especially ones who've fallen from grace. "Death of an Angel" and "A Letter in Verse" are both about (or from the POV of) angels. "Among the Angels," "The Angel Has Fallen," "Angels Took My Baby Away," "Tower of Fallen Angels," "When All the Angels Fell," "Angel Goes to God," and "Choir of Angels" are my other angel-inspired poems. (Then I have a fiction story I'm working on that takes place in Heaven after a war between the angels and the demons.)
Contest publications: Creative Communications, A Celebration of Young Poets (Heartland and Appalachia):
- "Death of an Angel," Fall 2006 | ISBN-13: 978-1-60050-079-4
- "A Letter in Verse," Summer 2007 | ISBN-13: 978-1-60050-135-7
- "Wanderer," Fall 2007 | ISBN-13: 978-1-60050-154-8
- "In Loving Memory," Spring 2008 | ISBN-13: 978-1-60050-188-3
Other Publications:
- "The Fruit of a Golden Dawn," Pendium Publishing: Soul Disclosure: Poetic Expressions (paperback). 2007. ISBN-10: 0-9724586-2-X
Personal Bio
My name is Lindsay, also known as Sacha or Elle. I'm 20 years old. I graduated summa cum laude from my high school in May 2008, and now I'm a sophomore in radio/TV production and management at Marshall University. I'm going to be minoring in English whenever I can start taking lit classes. I'm a sound engineer at WMUL, Marshall's award-winning student radio station, as well as the Traffic Director, an officer of the MU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and a member (and possibly eventually an officer) of Marshall's Golden Key International Honour Society chapter. (This translates to: "I'm busy all the time.")
As far as hobbies go, I love photography, reading, and studying languages. I've studied Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Polish, Hungarian, and Portuguese, but I am only bilingual. I'll be in my last semester of Spanish in the spring. Chinese is one of my favorite languages. Reading is my vice (well, one of them). I'm not necessarily well-read, but I worked part-time at a public library for a little over a year and mastered the art of pretending to be. Recently I'm in love with literature (especially Russian), but I also enjoy horror, fantasy-comedies, general young adult and adult fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (though I'm very picky about my poetry).
I also enjoy studying the supernatural. I know a good bit about vampire lore, and I read Runes and Tarot. I am very interested in ghosts and I have an affinity for angels. I have a deep curiosity about God and the universe, and that shows sometimes in my works, more so in my poetry than in my prose. I love classic cars (I took two years of automotive technology in high school) and playing sports (when/if I can). My favorite sports are basketball, volleyball, and hockey. Cooking is also a lot of fun, especially baking.
Reader Bio
I don't read vampire stories, romance, fanfictions, band fiction, scifi, or run of the mill boring everyday life drama fiction. Vampire stories are almost never well done anymore; I hate romance; most fanfiction is about things I'm not interested in; band fiction is a waste of time to read and write, because you can never publish it; science fiction just isn't my cup of tea; and if I wanted to read about somebody else's teenage drama, I would read someone's blog. Fiction is supposed to be about extraordinary circumstances, it's supposed to take you out of your world and put you in another one. My biggest writing pet peeve (other than online writing communities, which is quickly becoming a big issue for me) is that people just want to read boring adolescent melodrama these days.