Pamela Lu was born in Southern California and studied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1995 she has worked as a technical writer in Silicon Valley and co-edited Idiom , an online journal and chapbook press. In addition to a work of part fiction and part earnet mockumentary, AMBIENT PARKING LOT (Kenning Editions, 2011), a book of fanciful nonfiction, PAMELA: A NOVEL (Atelos, 1999), she has had prose and poetry published in a number of journals, including CHAIN, Chicago Review, Clamour, Explosive Magazine, Interlope, Mirage, Fascicle , and Poetics Journal , and in the anthologies BAY POETICS and BITING THE ERROR. Lu lives in San Francisco.