Dave Riese grew up in Massachusetts and attended Bates College in Maine, majoring in English literature. During his junior year, he studied at Oxford University.

After serving for four years in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, Riese worked at several Boston area companies in computer programing for forty years.

Upon retirement in 2012, he had a long talk with himself: “If you want to publish a book, you’d better take writing seriously.” He subsequently wrote 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.