Note from the Editors
Dear Reader,
Please enjoy the second issue of volume 36 of Ignatian. This issue contains a hand-selected number of works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, each paired with wonderful works of visual art.
Our gratitude extends beyond words to all those who dedicated their time to the production of this magazine. We’d like to thank the Ignatian staff for making this volume possible, from our first day of reading submissions to the final day of revisions. Specifically, we want to acknowledge our genre editors: Serena Holland, Anthea Kaplan, and Nathan Ganguin. Next, we’d like to thank Chloe Killilea for her outstanding work as design chair of Ignatian. We are forever grateful for her time spent in dedication to making this issue the beautiful product it is. Similarly, we must thank Kaylynn Mayhew and Amelie Mendoza, Ignatian’s events and marketing chairs, respectively; it is their work that fosters the community that we are so lucky to have. We must also extend our gratitude for the unwavering guidance offered by both our graduate advisor, Victoria Crowe, and our faculty advisor, Omar F. Miranda. Additionally, we give thanks to our lovely English department program assistant, Kimberly Garrett. Our greatest thanks are, of course, reserved for the featured authors and artists themselves: thank you for sharing your art with us all.
We hope you find the same enjoyment in reading this issue as we did in making it.
Callan Cimino and Audrey Walker, Editors in Chief
Find more art from this issue here!
Cover art by Guilherme Bergamini
Visual artist and photographic reporter, Guilherme Bergamini, is Brazilian and graduated with a degree in journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social-political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in fifty-four countries.
Genre cover art by Shane Watt
Shane Watt embarked upon a career as an artist in the early 2000s that has since seen his work exhibited internationally, including in Montreal, Lagos, Miami, and London. He also exhibited in New York City with the Ricco Maresca gallery at the 2023 Outsider Art Fair. He has completed several art residencies, including in Barcelona as part of a 2015 urban residency at Jiwar and in 2023 in Copenhagen at the Christiania Researcher in Residence program. His work has appeared in several publications including El Pais, Muzzle Magazine, and The Guardian, which described his map, “Shutterbug,” as “a ‘mash-up map,’ inspired by a long-distance relationship. . . . It includes features from Montesquieu in south-west France, Athens, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia.”
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