Born in 1961, with a diploma in political sciences, Valerio Aiolli lives in Florence.
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), Ali di sabbia (2007), Il sonnambulo (2014), Lo stesso vento (2016), Nero ananas (2019) and Portofino blues (2025).
His short stories appeared in various magazines, including «Nuovi Argomenti».