Melody S. Gee is the author of three books of poetry, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat (Driftwood Press, 2022), runner-up for the Adrift Chapbook Prize; The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books, 2016), long-listed for the Julie Suk Award; and Each Crumbing House (Perugia Press, 2010), winner of the Perugia Press Poetry Prize. Her essays, poems, and reviews can be found in Commonweal Magazine, Essay Daily, Lantern Review, and The Academy of American Poets.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos, California, Melody is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico. She has taught writing at Purdue University, Southwestern Illinois College, and St. Louis Community College. Currently, she works as a content and communications strategist.
Melody is the recipient of Kundiman Fellowships in poetry and fiction, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award (2022), an Artist Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (2022), two Pushcart Prize nominations, a Best New Poets Nomination, and the Robert Watson Literary Prize. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughters.