Alan Chong Lau (born July 11, 1948) is an Americanpoet and artist.^[1]

Lau was born inOroville, California and grew up inParadise, California. He graduated from theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Art. He serves as Arts Editor for theInternational Examiner.^[2] His art is represented at ArtXchange Gallery.^[3]He lives inSeattle, Washington.^[4]

• 1981American Book Award
• Creative Artist Fellowship for Japan from the Japan-US Friendship Commission
• National Endowment for the Arts and the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese Government
• Artists Grant from Seattle Arts Commission
• Publications Grant from King County Arts Commission
• Special Projects Grant from the California Arts Council

• no hurry (Cash Machine, 2007)
• Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker's Journal. University of Hawai'i Press. 2000.ISBN 978-0-8248-2323-8.
• Songs For Jadina. Greenfield Review Press. 1980.ISBN 978-0-912678-43-6.
• Garrett Kaoru Hongo; Alan Chong Lau; Lawson Fusao Inada (1978).The Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99. Buddhahead Press.

• Ishmael Reed, ed. (2003).From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across The Americas 1900-2002. Thunder's Mouth Press.ISBN 978-1-56025-458-4.
• Gary Gach, ed. (1998).What Book!? Buddha Poems From Beat to Hiphop. Parallax Press.ISBN 978-0-938077-92-3.
• Stan Yogi, ed. (1996). "2 Stops on the Way Home".Highway 99: a literary journey through California's Great Central Valley. Heyday Books. p. 386.ISBN 978-0-930588-82-3.Alan Chong Lau.

• "Conversations: Alan Chong Lau, Seattle poet, visual artist, and greengrocer",WaterBridge
• "Oral history interview with Johsel Namkung, 1989 Oct. 5 - 1991 Feb. 25",Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• Guiyou Huang, ed. (2006).The Columbia guide to Asian American literature since 1945. Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-231-12620-5.

• University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
• People from Oroville, California
• 1948 births
• Living people
• American poets of Asian descent
• Artists from California
• American Book Award winners

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