Alumni Spotlight: Ed Aymar
Class of 2011
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Anthony Award-nominated Ed Aymar’s most recent thriller, The Unrepentant, was published in 2019. His next thriller, They’re Gone, will be published in November 2020 under his pseudonym E.A. Barres. His past thrillers include the novels-in-stories The Swamp Killers and The Night of the Flood (in which he served as co-editor and contributor). He has a monthly column in the Washington Independent Review of Books, is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and, for years, was the managing editor of The Thrill Begins, an online resource for debut and aspiring writers. He is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color, the Mystery Writers of America and SinC. He also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C., and has hosted and spoken at a variety of crime fiction, writing, and publishing events nationwide. He received his Masters of Arts in Literature and Language from Marymount University in 2011.
Tell us about your favorite faculty member.
The faculty was so good and, really, my best memories are of them. I remember a management training seminar I once attended, and the presenter asked us why most people quit their jobs. The answer wasn’t salary or opportunity; it was because of their boss. Similarly, a professor controls the experience a student has of his or her class. My warm feelings to Marymount are, in no small part, because of how fun and intelligent and approachable the faculty was. I’m still friends with many of those teachers, and those are friendships for which I’m profoundly grateful.
