About Jonathan walter

design Leader | Strategist | author | ENTREPRENEUR | Inventor

A photograph of author Jonathan Walter, who is wearing glasses and sitting outside on a series of earthen steps in a wooded park.

Jonathan Walter is the author of THE TOWPATH, a time-travel suspense thriller, along with its companion novella, THE LOST DIARY OF GIL STANFORD. Set along Ohio’s historic canal corridor, THE TOWPATH follows a group of teens hunted by a killer—and her band of Iroquois warriors—from the past. THE LOST DIARY OF GIL STANFORD expands the story’s darker psychological undercurrents, offering an intimate and unsettling look into the mind of one of the novel’s most complicated figures.

In addition to his long fiction, Jonathan’s short fiction has appeared in GHOSTLIGHT: THE MAGAZINE OF TERROR, DARK DOSSIER #32, and THE DEVIL’S DOORBELL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARKEST ROMANCE.

By day, Jonathan is a senior UX design professional with over twenty years of experience leading product and design strategy for Fortune 500 companies in insurance and industrial automation. He holds nineteen patents for industrial software applications and has also worked with startups in the commercial security and real estate technology sectors.

Jonathan lives in the Cleveland, Ohio area with his wife and two sons. He draws creative inspiration from the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in Cuyahoga Valley National Park—the real-world setting that inspired THE TOWPATH.

Jon is publicly represented by Boundless Media.

Purchase THE TOWPATH

Jon’s debut novel is Available in paperback and ebook. find it now in your favorite online bookstore.