Jacob Aiello’s ancestry can be traced back to rabbis and horse thieves. In 2018 he received the Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction from Literary Arts. His essays have been published in or are forthcoming from december, Salt Hill Journal, The Sun, Entropy, The Rupture, Carve Magazine, and Ninth Letter, among others.

He lives in Milwaukie, Oregon with his wife, two dogs and four cats.