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 stories and essays have been published in or are forthcoming from Salt Hill Journal, Buckman Journal, The Sun, Entropy, The Rupture, Carve Magazine, Ninth Letter, and december, among others.

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