In 1992, Lau became the youngest poet ever to receive a GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD nomination, for Oedipal Dreams. She has published two subsequent collections of poetry, In the House of Slaves (1994) and Treble (2005).
Son roman Other Women (1995) raconte la liaison amoureuse platonique d'une jeune artiste avec un homme marié et d'âge mûr ainsi que les suites de cette liaison.