Sunday Workshop: Melody S. Gee
January 18 @ 1:30 pm
This workshop will be held in-person at High Low.
PHOTO CREDIT: C. Smyth Photography
Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Melody S. Gee for the January Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop.
GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION
Please note: this workshop is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.
- Registration is due by Wednesday, January 14
- This is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems
- No poem submissions will be accepted for this event
- Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time
- Those registering are expected to attend the workshop
To register, email:
[email protected]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 14, 2026
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop will be a generative workshop.
ABOUT THE POET
MELODY S. GEE is the author of We Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on the Grief and Hope of Conversion (University of Iowa Press, 2024), finalist for the Hudson Prize. She is also the author of three books of poetry, The Convert’s Heart is Good to Eat, The Dead in Daylight, and Each Crumbling House, winner of the 2010 Perugia Press Prize. Melody is the recipient of Kundiman fellowships in poetry and fiction, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Artist Support Grants from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and two Pushcart Prize nominations, among other honors. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear recently in Soapberry Review, Commonweal, Essay Daily, and Lantern Review.
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, and currently works as a communications strategist. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughters.