Lake has worked variously as an editor, publisher, musician, graphic designer, web designer, programmer, bartender, political poller, interior designer, photographer, and web developer.
Author of 39 chapbooks (poetry/short fiction).
The poem "Blue, Frozen" received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Edition edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
Creative passions include creating websites, writing, photography, box art assemblages, artist's books, collage, found art, hand-made books and boxes.
Lake currently resides in Cambridge, MA with Berv, their 2 cats: Paddington and Mazzy, 2 cockatiels: Prince Henry & Sir Dubbins, and 6 budgies: Cloude, Skye, Dandelion, Dilly, Cricket, & Galileo.