Walker, Joseph

I was born in Peoria, Illinois and got my undergraduate degree in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a brief jaunt to California, I returned to the Midwest, where I got my PhD in American Literature from Purdue University. After several years of teaching in traditional classrooms, including at Purdue and Auburn, I moved into teaching online courses for a number of schools, including Northampton Community College. I've been with NCC since 2006, and I hope to be with the school for a long time to come!

I currently live in Bloomington, Indiana with my wife and our three cats. Over the years I've published a number of academic essays in journals and anthologies, with a special focus on crime in popular culture; I've published two pieces on The Sopranos, for example. In recent years, I've turned back to my first love, writing fiction, and I've begun to have some success there! To my great pleasure, my story "The Penthouse View" was published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in 2011, and since then a number of other stories have been accepted by other magazines and anthologies. If you read one, I'd love to hear what you think!