A 1983 graduate of USC’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aïda spent 30 years writing for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, websites, and television. She is coauthor of Stop Where the Parking Lot’s Full, a guidebook to South Carolina’s favorite restaurants, and editor of State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, an anthology series published by University of South Carolina Press. Her feature writing has won awards from The National Better Newspaper Contest, the South Carolina Press Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists.