Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
Lecturer
BA, Union Institute and University; MFA, Northwestern
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University (SPS), where he won the Distinguished Thesis award in fiction. He teaches advanced writing in the Integrated Design and Strategy (MS-IDS) graduate program at Northwestern, as well as engineering communication in DTC, conducted jointly by the Cook Family Writing Program and McCormick Engineering at Northwestern University. Ignatius is the author of the literary novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books, 2020) and Salt Pruning (Hummingbird Poetry Press, 2024), a collaborative poetry collection. A second poetry collection Bone Dust Mother is forthcoming on Glass Lyre Press in early 2026. And a follow-up collaborative poetry collection is also due out on Roadside Press in Spring 2026. Ignatius is co-editor of The Overturning Anthology (Erratics Press), forthcoming later in 2025. His prose and poetry appear in several venues, including Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Porter Gulch Review, & Red Wheelbarrow, among others. He serves as Chair of the Curatorial Council at Ragdale Foundation, an artists residency in Lake Forest, IL where he is also a Board of Trustees member. He resides in Evanston, Illinois. Visit https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius 