Antonio Aiello is an award-winning writer, editor, and narrative consultant working with writers, advocacy organizations, and arts and entertainment companies, including Disney, McCann Worldgroup, Bard Prison Initiative, The Tow Youth Justice Initiative, MCC Theater, The American Booksellers Association, and PEN America.

A Sundance Fellow in Episodic TV, Aiello specializes in adapting complex, real-life stories from the margins of society into compelling and transformative books, television series, feature films, audio programs, and branding strategies for advocacy and justice-driven nonprofits.

As a narrative coach and ghostwriter, he helps authors with important and challenging stories find their voice, shaping real-life experiences into powerful narratives that change how audiences engage with the world.

Previously, as Content and Editorial Director for PEN America, Aiello developed multimedia content at the intersection of free expression and the literary arts, amplifying social justice issues and supporting writers at risk worldwide. His work included writing and producing short documentaries, founding and editing Glossolalia, a magazine of international literary translation, developing graphic narratives, and directing the PEN America multimedia archive in collaboration with Princeton University.

Recently, Aiello has collaborated with former Guantánamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi on multiple projects, including his memoir Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo, the Audible Original Letters from Guantánamo, the limited series From Guantánamo, With Love (in development with Diversity Hire, Ltd), and the feature film Life After (in development with Diversity Hire, Ltd and Process-Media).

Aiello has served as chairman of the board for Sejong USA, a Korean-American cultural and education organization, and on VIDA, Women in Literary Arts.

His essays and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Carolina Quarterly, PEN America, Alimentum, and elsewhere.