Lake Sagaris  Lake Sagaris (born 1956 in Montreal) is a Canadian journalist, poet, writer, urban planner, translator, and community leader who lives in Chile. When she was elected a leader into the Bellavista neighborhood association in the 1990s she became active in neighborhood issues. Sagaris achieved a Master's of Science in 2006 and got her PhD in Urban Planning and Community Development in 2012 both at the University of Toronto. Her book "After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind" was a non-fiction finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit. She won first prize in the Periodical Writers Association of Canada Magazine and Newspaper Travel Writing Contest 1997 for her article "Norte Grande."