Alan Chong Lau (born July 11, 1948) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, and artist.

Life

Lau was born in

Oroville, California Oroville (''Oro'', Spanish for "Gold" and ''Ville'', French for "town") is the county seat of Butte County, California, United States. The population of the city was 15,506 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, up from 13,004 in the 200 ...

and grew up in

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. He graduated from the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

with a B.A. in Art. He serves as Arts Editor for the ''

International Examiner The ''International Examiner'' is a free biweekly Asian American newspaper based in Seattle, Washington's International District. It was founded in 1974 by Gerald Yuasa and Lawrence Imamura to serve what the founders thought were the business int ...

''. His art is represented at ArtXchange Gallery. He lives in

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Awards

* 1981

American Book Award The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement". According to the 2010 awards press release, it is "a writers' award given by other writers" and "the ...

* 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

Works

* ''no hurry'' (Cash Machine, 2007) * * *

Anthologies

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References

External links

"Conversations: Alan Chong Lau, Seattle poet, visual artist, and greengrocer", ''WaterBridge''
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lau, Alan Chong 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