Gaven Wallace
Gaven Wallace. who has been freelancing with the Mississippi Free Press since 2022, is now a full-time reporter with the Roy Howard Community Journalism Center. Based in Hattiesburg, Miss., he is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a Masters of the Arts in creative writing. During his undergraduate career, he earned the O’Hara-Mackaman Endowment for fiction writing. His work can be found in journals such as Sky Island Journal and West Trade Review. He especially enjoys reading contemporary fiction and poetry with an eye for the postmodern, such as the works of Jennifer Eagan and David Mitchell.

