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		Allen Gee, Assistant Professor of English, teaches Fiction Workshops, Prose Form & Theory, other Creative Writing seminars, and Multicultural Literature classes. He is the Fiction Editor for Arts & Letters.
		Allen Gee has taught Fiction Writing at the University of Iowa, The University of Houston, and Tomball College before joining the faculty at Georgia College & State University. He received an M.F.A. (fiction concentration) from the Writers Workshop at Iowa, and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing from The University of Houston. In addition to his academic career, Allen has enjoyed working for non-profit literary organizations, serving as Director of Development for Writers In The Schools, teaching community novel writing workshops for Inprint, Inc., and helping Latino students compose M.F.A. applications for La Nuestra Palabra. He currently serves on he national advisory board for Gulf Coast literary journal, where he was Managing Editor. He also currently reviews scholarly articles for College English and MELUS.
		Allen has recently completed a novel, Far From The Beautiful Country, that chronicles the journey of a Chinese railroad worker on the Central Pacific line in the Sierra Nevadas in 1866. The novel will be represented by Gail Hochman at Hochman & Brandt. Allen’s work has received grants from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and he has been a Yaddo Fellow. He has published interviews with Ernest Gaines, Maxine Hong Kingston, Alan Hollinghurst, and is currently at work on a new novel, Yellowland, as well as a critical book, The Limits of Modernity and Postmodern Aesthetics in Asian American Literature. If not teaching or writing, Allen can be found casting a line on lakes, rivers, or in the Gulf of Mexico.
		Read fiction and other prose by Allen Gee Chapter IV: Far From the Beautiful Country “Profile” (an essay from Gulf Coast) “Deconstructing A Narrative Hierarchy, Leila Leong’s “I” in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone,” from MELUS, Summer 2004

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