Dave Riese grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Arlington High School and attending Bates College in Maine, majoring in English literature. During his junior year, he studied at Oxford University and travelled throughout Europe.
During the Vietnam War, Riese enlisted in the Air Force one step ahead of his draft board's invitation to join the army. He married Susan, his high school sweetheart, before his posting to the Philippines at Clark Air Base.
After his service, with no computer experience, Riese was hired by Liberty Mutual Insurance to attend their computer training course. He learned later that the major reason he was hired was his writing and communications background. He’s often said, "Only goes to show you that an English degree is a valuable asset!"
After thirty-five years working in information technology, he retired in 2012 and then sat down, for a long talk with himself: “If you want to publish a book, you’d better take writing seriously.”
Riese is the author Echo from Mount Royal, a novel about a young woman’s strange courtship in 1951 Montreal. Your Father Has Something to Tell You is his second novel.
He and his wife live north of Boston; their married children live in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. They have four grandchildren.
