Walter Hunt has a BA degree from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, with a major in European History and Germanic Languages. He has been writing for the gaming industry for nearly twenty years, including work for the Mechwarrior/Battletech system, the Middle Earth role-playing game, and the DC Heroes RPG. Currently, he is a technical writer, with several years experience as a software developer. A member of the Freemasons, he has served as Master of two different Lodges in Massachusetts. He and his wife and daughter are involved in a colonial reenactment group and attend Renaissance fairs whenever possible,. He lives in the suburbs of Boston, MA.

The Dark Wing and The Dark Path are his first novels.