Who is Jay Lake?
- Award-winning author of ten novels, five collections, and over 300 short stories
- Cancer survivor who blogs about politics, technology and health
- Frequent headliner at conventions, conferences and workshops
- Acclaimed anthology editor with fifteen volumes to his credit
- Winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
- Multiple Hugo, Nebula 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
Uncanny Magazine Issue One
First issue! Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Michael Lee, Helen Montgomery, Steven H Silver, and Pablo Vazquez, poetry by Neil […]
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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| Green | Endurance | Kalimpura |  |
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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 |
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| Greetings From Lake Wu (slipcase limited edition) |
Green Grow the Rushes-Oh (chapbook) |
Christmas Season (chapbook) (out of print) |
Loving Julius (chapbook) (out of print) |
Latest Novel
Me writing about cancer from a very internal perspective:
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