Allen Gee is currently the DL Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing at Columbus State University. Prior to teaching at CSU, he served as the Director of the M.F.A. Program at Georgia College, where he taught for thirteen years. He has been the Editor of Gulf Coast, the Fiction Editor for Arts & Letters, and currently serves as the Editor for both the multicultural imprint 2040 Books and the newly formed DLJ Books. A graduate of The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Houston, his writing can be found in Ploughshares, The Common, Crab Orchard Review, Terrain, Lumina, and other journals. His essay collection, My Chinese America, was published in 2015, and he’s recently completed a novel, The Iron Road. He’s also been a Yaddo fellow and has received numerous fellowships and grants. He is at work now on James Alan McPherson’s biography, At Little Monticello, and other projects. He is married to Renee Dodd and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa.