In 2012 Jacob Aiello cofounded the Soft Show (softshow.org), a bi-monthly experimental reading series that weds improvised live drawing with fiction and nonfiction read aloud by the authors. His own short stories have appeared in Fiddleblack, Menacing Hedge, SmokeLong Quarterly, Litro Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, Storychord, The Portland Review and The Wordstock Ten, among others.
His nonfiction has been previously published in Reading Local and street roots, a nonprofit homeless advocacy paper based in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife, dog and four cats and amasses a collection of short fiction consisting of far too many pronouns.