Malcolm Walker is a Nashville-based author who thrives in the shadows of convention. At night, he navigates the city’s neon-lit streets as a rideshare driver, collecting fragments of strangers’ lives—whispers of desire, secrets spilled in backseats, the raw pulse of Music City after dark. By day, he crafts unapologetically provocative novels that mainstream publishers wouldn’t dare touch, blending the grit of a town where anything goes with unflinching eroticism.

His work has been called “the literary equivalent of a slow bourbon burn.” He writes about Nashville’s underbelly—the meth-fueled buses on Dickerson Pike, the bourbon-soaked affairs in Germantown lofts, the Pentecostal preachers with Grindr accounts. His work is Southern-fried noir, where desire and decay tango under neon signs.