Alan Chong Lau is a poet and visual artist based in Seattle, Washington. He is the co-author of The Buddha Bandits Down Highway 99 with Garrett Hongo and Lawson Inada (Buddhahead Press, 1978) and the author of Songs For Jadina (Greenfield Review Press, 1980) and Blues and Greens: A Produce Worker’s Journal (University of Hawai’i Press, 2000).

He serves as the arts editor for the International Examiner that covers news, features, and the arts for the Northwest’s pan-Asian Pacific American community.

As an artist, he is represented by ArtX Contemporary Gallery in Seattle, Washington.


We are incredibly honored that he has shared his journals from Kyoto with us, giving readers an intimate look at his creative life and process and that many of his friends have shared the many postcards Alan sends from Japan in This Single Road: Postcards and Notebooks from Kyoto.