“Read books, shut out false statements raising pointless questions of our reflexes. We must mourn the senseless killing! Imperfect is the blade life sprung from, & a house without rules labors against the horoscope’s wheel.”
~From ‘Horoscopes of Sentient Creatures‘ in the collaborative poetry collection Everything I Touch Is—& Isn’t—You
Author photo: Sandra Wong Geroux
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IGNATIUS VALENTINE ALOYSIUS
has been named on Newcity’s LIT50 list, “Who Really Books in Chicago, 2025.” He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University, where he teaches. He is the author of the novel Fishhead. Republic of Want (Tortoise Books, 2020); Salt Pruning, a collaborative poetry collection (Hummingbird Poetry Press, 2025); a second collaboration, Everything I Touch Is—& Isn’t—You (Roadside Press, 2026); and the forthcoming poetry collection, Bone Dust Mother (Glass Lyre Press, 2026). He is a co-editor of The Overturning Anthology (Erratics Press, 2025) and a curator and host of Sunday Salon Chicago, a literary reading series now in its 22nd year. 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. Ignatius is writing songs for the times as an independent artist called HAPTICWOUND, streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and other platforms worldwide.
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sundaysalon-chicago.com https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius
JOIN me for a BOOK LAUNCH ON FRIDAY MAY 29, 2026 AT ROSCOE BOOKS, 7 PM for Everything I Touch Is—& Isn’t—You, with poets Nina Sudhakar, Faylita Hicks, & Carlos Cumpian.
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Curator & Director of the first South Asian American Literary Festival, 2026, to happen at South Asia Institute on Saturday, August 22nd.
This is a FREE event, but registration is required (click here).
I will be in conversation with keynote speaker Fatimah Asghar—a poet, Emmy nominated filmmaker of Brown Girls, an educator, & performer. We’ll be discussing her forthcoming book, Daughter of the Mountains, out on July 07 this year.
JOIN US!
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On Newcity magazine’s LIT50 list of “Who really books in Chicago, 2025.”
Now in its 22nd year, Sunday Salon Chicago hosts traditionally published authors from near and far, in-person at Roscoe Books & on Zoom. Grateful to act as this reading series’ current host and curator.
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@hapticwound
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