Ignatius Valentine Aloysius

About Ignatius

Ignatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he teaches writing and experimentation. He is the author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books, 2020), and his prose and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Thanatos Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Another Chicago Magazine, Porter Gulch Review, and others. Ignatius is a host and curator of the long-running reading series Sunday Salon Chicago. He serves on the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation, an arts residency in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he is also its newest Board of Trustees member. A resident of Evanston, Ignatius is currently shopping his second novel manuscript, a speculative and historical literary work, and a poetry collection that he co-wrote with David Allen Sullivan, poet laureate of Santa Cruz, CA. Ignatius is working on his next book, a lyrical novel.