Jacob Aiello recently graduated with highest honors from Portland State University, where he managed to pick up a degree in English Literature while spending all his spare time writing fiction. His stories have been published in Ooligan Press and The Wordstock Festival’s "Wordstock Ten." He is now hard at work amassing a collection of short fiction about the transformative power of the written word, which is more exciting than it sounds. He grew up in a small town in Northern California and experimented with Texas, but now happily resides in Portland, where he plans to stay.