Melody S. Gee is the author of three books of poetry, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat (Driftwood Press, 2022) ; The Dead in Daylight (2016, Cooper Dillon Books); and Each Crumbling House (2010, Perugia Press). Her poems explore the intersections of cultural and spiritual identity, the familial and the sacred, and the grief and hope of religious conversion.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos, California, she is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of New Mexico, and taught college writing for 14 years before becoming a freelance business and technical writer.

Melody is the recipient of Kundiman fellowships in poetry and fiction, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, an Artist Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. Find her at https://melodygee.com