The Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award

[L to R: Billy Youngblood, Andrew Ramirez, Casey and Hilary Gauntt, Diana Vaden,  Julia Cooperman (seated), Professor David Roman, Aishlin Cortell and Sydni Chiles] The Jimmy 2012 Recipients Please click on the red box

I was born in Los Angeles in 1990. I attended the University of Chicago as a Philosophy major, then took several years off of school to work before transferring to USC in 2013 and declaring my major in English (Creative Writing). I began writing poetry after taking Introduction to Poetry with Cecelia Woloch, which was […]

I’m Jason Ketchum, twenty years old and turning twenty-one in a couple weeks on May 4. I’ve been raised by my mother alone, to whom I owe everything. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and lived there for only a couple years I don’t remember. My mother and I then moved to Los Angeles, where […]

Georgia graduated from USC in 2016 with a major in English and Creative Writing, and minors in French and Comparative Literature. As an undergraduate, she acquired research experience under the Mellon Mays and USC SURF fellowships, among others, and pursued the study of foreign languages, which sparked her interest in comparative literary studies. Upon graduation, […]