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		Allen Gee, Assistant Professor of English, teaches Fiction Workshops, Prose Forms, other Creative Writing seminars, and Multicultural Literature classes. He is the Fiction Editor for Arts & Letters and the faculty supervisor of the GCSU Creative Writing Program’s writers in the schools “Early College” project.
	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 MFA applications for La Nuestra Palabra. He continues to offer GCSU MFA students much guidance on job searches and other future goals.	Renee Dodd (Allen’s wife), Allen Gee, and novelist John Marks (former classmate of Allen’s at the University of Iowa at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta 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. in Fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. He currently serves on the national advisory board for Gulf Coast literary journal, where he was Managing Editor. He also currently reviews scholarly articles for College English and MELUS.
	Read Allen’s new story “Are You Passing?” in Ploughshares.	Allen has recently completed the novel Far From the Beautiful Country, which chronicles the journey of a Chinese railroad worker on the Central Pacific line in the Sierra Nevada Mountains 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. A new short story appears in the fall 2008 issue of Ploughshares. 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 the lakes and rivers of Georgia or in the Gulf of Mexico.
	Allen at an MFA graduation party	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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