Melody S. Gee was born in Taiwan and raised in Cerritos, California. Her first poetry collection, Each Crumbling House, won the 2010 Perugia Press Book Prize. Her second collection, The Dead in Daylight (Cooper Dillon Books, 2016) was a finalist for the Jacar Press Julie Suk Award. Her poems and essays most recently appear in Figure One, Two Countries Anthology, The Los Angeles Review, Meridian, and Barnstorm Literary Journal. Her awards include the Robert Watson Literary Prize, and a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat fellowship. She lives with her husband and daughters in Saint Louis, MO.