Our Authors

Raised in Maryland, Paul Lake earned his undergraduate degree at Towson University and taught for two years at a Baltimore school. After receiving the Mirrielees Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, he earned his master’s degree in creative writing and English at Stanford University. Lake taught at University of Santa Clara in California for two years before moving to Arkansas to teach at Arkansas Teach University, where he is currently a professor of English and creative writing. In 1988, he won the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, an annual prize given to one Arkansas writer each year, and now he is the poetry editor of First Things, a journal on current issues. He has two published books of poetry, Another Kind of Travel (Chicago) and Walking Backward (Story Line), and one previously published novel, Among the Immorals, a satirical thriller about poets and vampires in San Francisco. He lives in Russellville, Ark., with his wife Tina and their two children.

Eli Lake is a senior reporter for the New York Sun. Before that he was the chief diplomatic correspondent for United Press International. Mr. Lake’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the National Review and the Washington Times. In his reporting he has traveled to all five continents and all three members of the Axis of Evil. In 2005 and 2006, Mr. Lake lived and reported for a year from Cairo for the New York Sun.

Jim Lampley is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football and ABC’s Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup PGA Golf, and 14 Olympics. For 30 years, he was the face and voice of HBO World Championship boxing, including anecdotes and interactions with the most famous fighters of his era (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard and George Foreman) and the biggest boxing matches up to and including the “Billion Dollar Bout” between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of pay-per-view sports.

L. Jagi Lamplighter is the author of the Prospero’s Daughter series, the first book of which, Prospero Lost, is available. She is also an assistant editor on the Bad Ass Faeries Anthology series. When not writing, she switches to her secret identity as wife and stay-home mom in Centreville, VA, where she lives with her dashing husband, author John C. Wright, and their four darling children, Orville, Roland Wilbur, Justinian Oberon, and Pingping. She can be found blogging at http://arhyalon.livejournal.com.

Mario J. Lanza is a well-known writer and humorist whose “Survivor Strategy” column was one of the most widely read on the Internet between the years 2001 and 2004. He was recently called “one of the foremost Survivor experts in the world” by “Survivor: Amazon” contestant/sociopath Rob Cesternino. Mario has read every book on serial killers ever written, and he’s also done extensive research on criminal psychopathology. In fact, at one point in his life he wanted to work for the FBI as “one of those Silence of the Lambs guys.” This didn’t quite pan out, but he does claim he can spot a sociopath 100 yards away. When he’s not writing about “Survivor,” Mario enjoys baseball, horror movies, being creeped out by Brian Heidik and empathizing with other humans. And he’s thrilled that his bio is just a little bit longer than Brad’s.