W. J. Walker: - W.J. WALKER grew up in Port Dover and Otter Lake, Ontario. He is retired from a thirty-year career as a high school English teacher and literary pundit. A stroke survivor, sommelier, speaker, and proponent of truth and reconciliation in Canada, Walker holds an MA in Modern Critical Theory. His thesis was written on Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose allegories and images run through Follow the Silence.

A first-time author and lifelong reader and writer, Walker belongs to several book clubs and the Muskoka Authors Association. He lives in Huntsville, Ontario, with his wife.