Loren Blake was a temporary professor at the Tulsa House of Night. The professorship is an honorary position awarded to him because he was the Vampyre Poet Laureate. Professor Blake was unusually young for a Poet Laureate (in actual years he was only twenty-five) and was the youngest Vampyre Poet Laureate in vampyre history. His accomplishments are also extraordinary because he was a man and due to the vampyre matriarchal society, most Poet Laureates are women. He also used Zoey Redbird to get Erik Night to break up with her.