She worked as a post office clerk, a secretary, a company planner, a reporter and a civil servant before her writing career.
[1] While working in a post office in 1993, she attended novelist Su Tong who came in to purchase a stamp, and "felt the spirit of literature in his presence and was so affected that she thought of resigning immediately to go home and write".
[2] Lu Min's 2012 novel Dinner for Six (六人晚餐) has been translated into English, German, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
[4] In March 2024, Lu Min was invited to a 3-week long residency in the UK, hosted by the Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University.
[5] In May 2024, Lu Min was invited in Italy to present her translation into Italian language of Cena per sei (Dinner for six) at the Salone del libro in Turin.