With a diploma in political sciences, Valerio Aiolli lives in Florence and works in the administration within a commercial company.
He has published the collection of short stories Male ai piedi (1995) and the novel Io e mio fratello (1999) with which he won the Fiesole Prize for narrators under 40. The year 2001 saw the release of Luce profuga, and the following year A rotta di collo, which won him the Giuseppe Giusti Special Jury Prize. He also wrote the novels Fuori tempo (2004) and Ali di sabbia (2007), as well as numerous short stories that appeared in various magazines, including «Nuovi Argomenti».