Siang Lu is the author of Ghost Cities and The Whitewash, and the creator of #sillybookstagram. The Whitewash won the ABIA Audiobook of the Year in 2023 for its audio adaptation, which starred a large and diverse cast of fourteen actors. It also won the Glendower Award for an emerging writer in the Queensland Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
In 2023 Siang was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 Asian-Australians at the Asian-Australian Leadership Awards. He holds a Master of Letters from the University of Sydney and has written for film and television for Singapore’s Beach House Pictures and Malaysia’s Astro network.
He is based in Brisbane, Australia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
