Maureen Seaberg

Maureen Seaberg is the author of the synesthesia memoir Tasting the Universe, which has been featured in The New York Post, Oprah Radio, The Huffington Post and other outlets. She has several forms of synesthesia: her k's are teal, her 8's aubergine and she'd have to become a glass artisan to describe what she sees when listening to Yo-Yo Ma as words fail her. She is currently at work on her second book, The Accidental Savant. It is the story of Jason Padgett, who acquired synesthesia and Savant Syndrome due to a brain injury sustained in a brutal mugging nine years ago in Tacoma, Washington.

Books by Maureen Seaberg

Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies

by Maureen Seaberg, William Bushell

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Tasting the Universe

Maureen Seaberg has presented on synesthesia at the Toward a Science of Consciousness conferences in Tucson and Stockholm, Yale Divinity School, the American Synesthesia Association conference at Vanderbilt University, Science Writers in New York (SWINY) and at Tibet House and NYU. She has written for the New York Times, ESPN the magazine, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast and has appeared on MSNBC and PBS. She won a scholarship to the inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony in 2009.