Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
Evanston, IL
Poetry, Fiction, Interdisciplinary Art
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 and is a lecturer in writing at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Ignatius is the host and curator of the popular reading series Sunday Salon Chicago (sundaysalon-chicago.com). A resident of Evanston, he serves as a Board of Trustees member at Ragdale and Co-Chair of its Curatorial Board; he is also a mayor-appointed board member of the Evanston Arts Council. Ignatius is the author of the experimental novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books), and his prose and poetry appear in or are forthcoming in Portable Gray (U of Chicago Press), Allium, a Journal of Poetry and Prose, Cold Mountain Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Porter Gulch Review, Trampset, Olney Magazine, Roi Fainéant Press, and others. He is currently shopping a lyrical novel, a poetry collection, and a full-length literary/speculative novel narrated by birds.