Siang Lu is the author of Ghost Cities and The Whitewash, and the creator of Silly Bookstagram. The Whitewash won the ABIA Audiobook of the Year in 2023. Ghost Cities has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal and has shortlisted for numerous literary awards, including The Age Book of the Year Award, the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing, the VPLA John Clarke Humour Award, the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize and The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award and The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award at the Queensland Literary Awards.
In 2023 Siang was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Asian-Australians at the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards.
He is based in Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
