[5][6] She studied creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington graduating in 2018 with a master's degree.
Her technical career started with a role writing software for microcontrollers for a wheelchair company in Christchurch.
It was written to capture the experience of growing up "caught between worlds" in China, Whanganui, Christchurch, Palmerston North, Auckland and Wellington.
[4][9][2] Extracts of Lu's book All Who Live on Islands have appeared in journals and online including Sport, Starling, The Pantograph Punch, Turbine Kapohau and Mimicry.
[3][12][13][14] Lu has named authors Esme Weijun Wang, Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang as her influences.