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. Some of his stories and essays have been published in or are forthcoming from The Rupture (formerly The Collagist), The Sun, Ninth Letter, december, Big Lucks, Menacing Hedge, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Storychord, among others.
He lives in Milwaukie, Oregon with his wife, two dogs and three cats.
