Who is Jay Lake?

- Award-winning author of ten novels (nine in print, one forthcoming) and over 300 short stories
- Cancer survivor who blogs about politics, technology and health
- Frequent headliner at conventions, conferences and workshops
- Acclaimed anthology editor
- Winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
- Multiple Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee
- Published by Tor Books, Night Shade Books, MonkeyBrain Books, Fairwood Press, Wheatland Press and Subterranean Press
- Represented by Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency
Cancer Blogging: An index to my cancer blogging since 2008
Interviews: Locus | Sunday Oregonian
Audio: My books at Audible.com | METAtropolis
Free download of “In the Forests of the Night” read by Michael Hogan
Contact: jlake@jlake.com | Twitter: jay_lake
Latest Post
[events] Rio Hondo, day three
More critique yesterday. More food. More fun. My Aunt M—, who lives in Colorado, turned up with pies. @dratz of Waterloo Productions arrived last night to shoot some Lakeside footage here at Rio Hondo. My METAtropolis: Green Space novella “Rock of Ages” is being critiqued tomorrow. This means I don’t have to do any critical [...]
Short Fiction Online
- “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black“
- “The Speed of Time“
- “The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home from the Stars“, with Ruth Nestvold (reprinted in Year’s Best Science Fiction, vol. 23)
- “The Cleansing Fire of God“
- “Green Grow the Rushes-Oh“
- “The Hangman Isn’t Hanging“
- “Jack’s House“
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| Mainspring | Escapement | Pinion | |
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| Trial of Flowers | Madness of Flowers | Rocket Science | Death of a Starship |
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Short Fiction Collections
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| The Sky That Wraps | The River Knows Its Own | American Sorrows | |
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| Dogs In the Moonlight | Greetings From Lake Wu | ||
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Anthologies and Editing Projects
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| TEL : Stories | All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories |
Polyphony 6 | Polyphony 5 |
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| Polyphony 4 | Polyphony 3 | Polyphony 2 | Polyphony 1 |
















































