Jacob Aiello’s stories have previously been published in Ooligan Press, The Portland Review, and the Wordstock Festival’s “The Wordstock Ten.” He has been a member of Portland Fiction Project since 2007 and is a frequent contributor to the 1,000 Words Reading Series. He is now hard at work amassing a collection of short fiction consisting of far too many pronouns. He grew up in a small town in Northern California and experimented with Texas, but now happily resides in Portland, Oregon, where he plans to stay.