Antonio Aiello is a writer, editor, ghostwriter, and narrative coach whose work sits at the intersection of literary memoir, human rights, and narrative nonfiction. A Sundance Fellow in Episodic TV, he has collaborated with former Guantanamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi on three books—Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo (Hachette, 2021), winner of the Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award and reviewed in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books; the Audible Original Letters from Guantánamo, named one of Audible's Best Nonfiction titles of 2024; and Life After, Adayfi's second memoir, currently in development. Together they co-wrote the television adaptation From Guantánamo, With Love, currently in development with Diversity Hire, Ltd, and the feature film Life After, a finalist in the Sundance Feature Film Development program, in development with Process-Media.

As former Content and Editorial Director at PEN America, Aiello built and ran literary programs amplifying writers targeted, imprisoned, or silenced for their work. He produced mini-documentary films featuring Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Naji, and Khadija Ismayilova; co-wrote the PEN American Handbook for Writers in Prison; founded and edited Glossolalia, an international literary translation magazine; and directed the PEN America multimedia archive in collaboration with Princeton University and the NEH—making decades of literary programming publicly accessible.

His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Carolina Quarterly, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. He has served on the board of Sejong USA and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.