Melody S. Gee lives in St. Louis, MO and teaches writing at Southwestern Illinois College. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Greensboro Review, Mississippi Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. In 2008, she received the Robert Watson Prize for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and was a Kundiman Asian American poetry retreat fellow. [Read]