Dave Riese attended Bates College in Maine, majoring in English literature. During his junior year, he studied at Oxford University and traveled 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 forty 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 of 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, published in 2021.

He and his wife live north of Boston.