MEMOIR
“Language and Conversion” in Commonweal Magazine. Feb. 2020.
“Why I Came and Why I Stay” in Commonweal Magazine. Oct. 2019.
“We Carry Smoke and Paper” in Blood Orange Review Vol. 11.1. May 2019.
“The Sense of the Story” in The Common Reader. April 2019.
“Luck Let Go” in Barnstorm Literary Journal. 2015.
“Jack’s Kitchen“ in Copper Nickel. 2010.
“Back Home“ in North Dakota Quarterly. 2007.
ARTICLES
February 2021 Lectionary Reflection. Forthcoming in Give Us This Day.
“Making an American.” Book review of Jia Lynn Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide in Commonweal Magazine. September 2020.
Retreatant Profile at the Bridges Foundation. Jan. 2020.
“Tales of Assimilation” in Commonweal Magazine. Dec. 2019.
“Return Community College to an Institution that Builds Our City’s Future” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Feb. 2018.
“College’s Trustees Add a Stinging Insult to Layoffs” in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dec. 2017.
“Silence, Reader” in Blackbird. 2010.
POEMS in PERIODICALS (selected)
“Learn to Walk” in The Rappahannock Review, Dec. 2019.
“And So More” in Lantern Review, 2019.
“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” in Academy of American Poets, 2019.
“The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat” in Ruminate, 2018.
“Liturgy” in Slippery Elm, 2017.
“The Convert Learns to Play Hide and Seek”; “The Convert Desires Her Way Into a First Prayer.” Figure One, 2017.
“Or Am I”; “Yolk” in Construction Magazine, 2014.
“Why We Are This Way” in Boxcar Poetry Review, 2013.
3 poems in failbetter.com, 2012.
2 poems in Connotation Press, 2011.
“The Sea Wall” in The Collagist, 2011.
“Migration” reprinted in East West Poetry, 2011.
3 poems in Town Creek Poetry, 2010.
2 poems in Blackbird, 2010.
“History Filled In” reprinted in 3 Quarks Daily, 2010.
“Giving” in Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine, 2009.
“The Voice Before” in The Greensboro Review, 2008.
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POEMS in ANTHOLOGIES
The Dead in Daylight
Poetry collection available from COOPER DILLON BOOKS.
The Dead in Daylight named a long-list finalist for the 2016 Julie Suk Award.
Melody S. Gee Poet Spotlight: On The Other Side of the Eye
Review by Daniel Klawitter in NewPages.com
Review by Issa M. Lewis in Mom Egg Review
Review by Claire Oleson in Cleaver Magazine
Review by Trista Edwards in The Los Angeles Review
Editor’s Corner feature on The Lantern Review
Dante DiStefano interviews Cooper Dillon Books on The Best American Poetry Blog
Each Crumbling House
WINNER OF THE 2010 PERUGIA PRESS BOOK PRIZE.
Poetry collection available from PERUGIA PRESS.
“Melody Gee’s Each Crumbling House is a tale of return not marked by triumph, but of a palpable absence. The poems’ speakers “count arrows of exiled/geese” to know not only about what it is to feel cold, but what it is to leave home. There is comfort here, too: in the spaces of longing, an understanding is reached upon the return to homeland. While the speakers are reaching for ways to name the pain of lost histories and lost relatives, “always/a word away from the word,” Melody Gee’s poems are full of the right words, folding and unfolding the way that wings do from the mass clusters of Monarch butterflies wintering in the pines, huddling together for warmth.” -Oliver de la Paz
“Melody Gee proves to us through her poetry that first-generation Asian American experiences still matter and will always matter. But even more so, her quietly unsettling and powerful book speaks to the whole human experience through its exploration of inheritance. These are haunting poems about culture, nature, and ultimately about love.” -Victoria Chang
Commonweal Conversation about Language and Conversion. The Weal Virtual Gathering. April 6, 2020.
Pilsen Community Books, Chicago, IL, November 6, 2019.
Kundiman Reading. The Dial Bookshop. Chicago, IL. November 7, 2018.
Kundiman Panel. Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Iowa City, IA. March 6, 2018.
Mission Creek Festival Reading. Prairie Lights Bookstore. Iowa City, IA. March 7, 2018.
National Poetry Month Reading & Workshop Series, St. Louis Community College-Forest Park, St. Louis, MO, April 4, 2017.
National Poetry Month Reading, St. Louis Community College-Wildwood, Wildwood, MO, April 20, 2016.
Orr Street Studios Seeing Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions, Columbia, MO. April 15, 2014.
St. Louis Poetry Center Observable Reading, St. Louis, MO. February 10, 2014.
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. St. Louis, MO. February 14, 2013.
Fort Gondo Poetry Series, St. Louis, MO. October 12, 2012.
Southern Colorado Reading Series. Colorado State University-Pueblo. October 18, 2011.
Sheila Nolan Whalen Poetry Series. St. Louis, MO. October 4, 2011.
River Styx @ Duff’s Poetry Series. St. Louis, MO. March 21, 2011.
The Jones Library. Amherst, MA. November 7, 2010.
The Collected Poets Series. Shelburne Falls, MA. November 4, 2010.
East St. Louis Writers’ Workshop. East St. Louis, IL. September 16, 2010.
Southwestern Illinois College Poetry Reading. Belleville, IL. April 21, 2010.
Kundiman Fiction Fellowship, 2019.
Finalist, Jacar Press Julie Suk Book Award, The Dead in Daylight, 2017.
Writers@Work Nonfiction Fellowship Prize Finalist, “Luck Let Go.” 2015.
Pushcart Prize Nomination, Each Crumbling House, 2010.
Perugia Press Book Prize Winner, Each Crumbling House, 2010.
Best New Poets Nomination, 2010.
Boston Review/Discovery Prize Semi-finalist, 2010.
Many Mountains Moving First Book Prize Finalist, The Voice Before, 2009.
Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize Semi-Finalist, The Voice Before, 2009.
National Poetry Series Finalist, The Voice Before, 2009.
Liam Rector First Book Prize Finalist, The Voice Before. 2009.
Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction Finalist, “Jack’s Kitchen.” 2009.
Pushcart Prize Nomination, “The Voice Before,” 2009.
Kundiman Poetry Fellowship, 2008.
Winner, Robert Watson Literary Prize, “The Voice Before.” 2008.