Richard Sieg was born in 1964 in Missouri. Richard's parents moved to several locations in North Carolina before settling in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where Richard grew up. He served in the United States Navy, including Desert Shield and Storm, worked as a professional engineer, before graduating from Vermont Law School in 2008. While writing his first novel, Love After Life, he worked as a licensed attorney by day and wrote general fiction novels at night. He is married to Amanda and he is a father of two young men, Aaron and David. They live in Richard's hometown of Winston-Salem.