Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. was a science fiction and fantasy writer.Lake lived in Portland and worked as a product manager for a voice services company. His work appeared in Postscripts, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Strange Horizons, Asimov's Science Fiction, Nemonymous, and the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. He was an editor for the "Polyphony" anthology series from Wheatland Press, and was also a contributor to The Internet Review of Science Fiction.Lake died on June 1, 2014.