Curatorial Council

Curatorial Council Co-Chair

Ignatius Valentine Aloysius is a naturalized U.S. citizen, born in India and raised in Mumbai by a Tamilian father and Anglo-Indian mother. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he won the Distinguished Thesis Award for fiction. He is a lecturer in writing at Northwestern University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Ignatius is the current host and curator of the long-running reading series Sunday Salon Chicago. A resident of Evanston, he also serves as a mayor-appointed board member of the Evanston Arts Council. Twice Pushcart nominated, Ignatius is the author of the experimental novel Fishhead. Republic of Want, and a collaborative poetry collection, Salt Pruning, co-authored with David Allen Sullivan, recent poet laureate of Santa Cruz county, CA. Ignatius' prose and poetry appear in several venues, including Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Another Chicago Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, Porter Gulch Review, Roi Fainéant Press, The Rumpus, and others. He is currently shopping a speculative lyrical novel and finishing up his next poetry collection. Visit his Linktree here.