Aïda Rogers

Aïda Rogers is a writer and editor who, like it or not, has found plenty of material in her home state. She is the creator and editor of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love (University of South Carolina Press), a three-volume anthology series that includes stories by 108 Palmetto State writers. Her articles have won national and regional awards, and in 2018, her work on My Tour through the Asylum: A Southern Integrationist’s Memoir (USC Press), received an IPPY Award silver medal. At her alma mater, the University of South Carolina, she writes for the South Carolina Honors College, where she teaches “Finding Your Voice: Writing and Editing for Life.” In her “Everything and Nothing” column, distributed by the South Carolina Press Association, she writes about whatever she wants, from racism and literacy to forgotten perfumes and the necessity of friends. A native of Lexington, Aïda works from an old house in Columbia and a new porch in McClellanville, where she lives with her husband, Wally, and their two rascally Boykins.