Aaron Starmer (born 1976 in northern California) is an American author of young adult fiction novels, known for The Riverman Trilogy and Spontaneous. As of June 2016, he was working on another novel, entitled Meme. In 2016, it was reported that Awesomeness Films had bought the rights to adapt Spontaneous into a movie of the same name, which was released in 2020. He has also co-authored a book about camping along with Catharine Wells and Timothy Starmer. Also in 2016, Starmer appeared at the annual Texas Book Festival.
Starmer was born in northern California and raised in suburban Syracuse, New York, where he graduated from FayettevilleâÂÂManlius High School. He received a B.A. degree from Drew University and a Master of Arts degree from New York University. A longtime resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, he now lives in a former schoolhouse in northern Vermont with his wife and two daughters.
The Wall Street Journal named The Riverman, the first book of the Riverman Trilogy, one of the best books of 2014. Brian Truitt, writing for USA Today, gave Spontaneous 3 out of 4 stars, writing that "...StarmerâÂÂs originality and well-paced plot give needed life to a story filled with random death."
A Publishers Weekly reviewer lauded that Stramer, through Meme, "crafts a neo-noir-flavored revenge thriller that stabs at the heart of 21st-century isolation".