Paul Lake's first poetry collection, Another Kind of Travel, received the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. His essays on poetry have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. His novel Among the Immortals (Story Line Press), a satirical thriller about poets and vampires, was picked as one of the best first novels by The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Lake is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at  Arkansas Tech University and lives in Russellville with his wife, artist Tina Lake, and their two children.