A native of San Antonio,Walker graduated from The University of Texas at Austin. He has a varied background as a writer and editor, working for Prentice Hall Publishers, Texas Parade and ULTRA magazines, and editing Southwest Airlines Magazine and SA: The Magazine of San Antonio.
He has written for Texas Monthly, Esquire and Third Coast magazines and has been a frequent contributor to San Antonio Current and the San Antonio Light. His fiction has appeared in the Jewish literary magazine Kerem and in The Texas Review.
Walker cites as major influences Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Philip Roth and John Updike.
Walker lives in San Antonio with his artist wife Lila and their Alaskan Malamute rescue dog Gypsy.
