North Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 5pm

Ignatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. He is the author of the novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books) and Salt Pruning, a collaborative poetry collection on Hummingbird Poetry Press due this fall. His writing has appeared in several journals including Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose, Another Chicago Magazine, Porter Gulch Review, and Portable Gray (U of Chicago Press). He hosts the reading series Sunday Salon Chicago and serves as Co-Chair of the Curatorial Board at Ragdale Foundation, where he is also a Board of Trustees member. Ignatius lives in Evanston, IL.