Jay Lake

Joseph Edward "Joe" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He wrote "Trial of Flowers" (2006), "Mainspring" (2007), "Escapement" (2008), "Madness of Flowers" (2009) and "Pinion" (2010). He was a quarterly first place winner in the Writers of the Future contest in 2003. In 2004, he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction.
Lake was born in Taiwan to foreign service officer Joseph Edward Lake (born 1941). He was raised in both Taiwan and Nigeria before settling in the United States.
Lake died of colorectal cancer on June 1, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. He was 49 years old.