Lured to the Lake, Laika Wallace's second novel, is now available to read FOR FREE! Check the "Read stories here" tab.
Laika Wallace (she/he/it/sie) is a dog who died in space. No wait, that's just Laika. Laika Wallace is an Indigenous horse wo/man whose many ghosts haunt the streets of "Ottawa" creating poetry, fantasy & sci fi novels, music, and mixed media artwork.
It is a young adult who writes for the 13-20+ age range. Hir preferred genre is fantasy, with some sci fi, mystery, and horror elements. Through fiction, she writes about her experiences being an intersex polyamorous LGBT femme, being an urban NDN, being otherkin, her spirituality and relationship to Judaism, and living with her disabilities, autism, and other neurodivergencies. He lives on unceded, unsurrendered Algonquin territory with his guinea pigs and ball python. Aside from writing, sie also creates digital art, collages, mixed media pieces, electronic music, and dabbles in sculpture and sewing. Some of hir hobbies include reading, hiking and walking in local natural areas, swimming, trying interesting and new soda flavors, Randonauting and urbex, and collecting pieces of broken ceramics.
Some other interests of his include: cartoons and tv shows (Codename: Kids Next Door, Di-Gata Defenders, Samurai Jack, Over the Garden Wall, Gravity Falls, Scooby Doo, Doctor Who, Millennium, The X Files, Dead Like Me, Free Rein, Twin Peaks, North of North), movies (O Brother Where Art Thou, John Carter of Mars, Princess Mononoke, Big Fish, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, pre-Disney Stars Wars, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, The Royal Tenenbaums, Creep), music (Leonard Cohen, Squalloscope, Black Dresses, The Pack A.D., Madness, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Florence and the Machine, Owl City, Of Monsters and Men, Brockhampton, Royal Canoe), books (Tailchaser's Song, The Sight series, Silverwing series, Lumberjanes series, My Secret Unicorn series, Iron Widow, pre-Disney Star Wars, The Cats of Tanglewood Forest), and video games (Stardew Valley, Star Stable Online, No Man's Sky, Wingspan, The Coin Game, Unpacking, Jamestown, Torchlight II).
She is a huge animal lover! His favorite animals are equines, big cats, viverridae, mustelidae, and cervines. It regularly donates to wildlife conservation organizations with the money it makes from its art, and has been passionate about these causes from a young age.
