Andy Riedlinger was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota. He has many fond memories of his childhood and growing up in western North Dakota. He still has many friends living in his hometown and often returns to see them and fish in Lake Sakakawea. He has wonderful parents, whose mother worked as a school teacher and whose father worked as a manager in a bustling oil patch called the Bakken.   

After raising their family, they moved to a retirement community in Ft Myers, Florida, which they absolutely love.  He also has two younger sisters, who are each enjoying great careers and family life. One of his younger sisters, who now lives in Tennessee, has four wonderful children and a loving husband who has blessed their family with a thriving chiropractic business. His youngest sister became a pharmaceutical doctor and is raising one delightful child with her husband, with whom Andy enjoys fishing when visiting North Dakota.

Andy moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, immediately after he graduated high school in 1997 to pursue new adventures and his love for the mountains. In 2001, he graduated college with a degree in video production and has since become a respected video systems engineer for many of the largest productions in Colorado. He is also a successful entrepreneur who has pursued many business interests in the city of Denver where he currently lives. He has owned businesses in Colorado’s marijuana industry, real estate market, audiovisual industry, as well as two laundromats, and a small vending business.   

Andy enjoys fishing, hunting, snowboarding, billiards, oil painting, writing, and traveling in his free time. He began writing at a young age and has continued to chase his dream of being a successful author. Remarkably, he had written some short stories, several poems, and a novella before even graduating high school. He published his first novel in 2007 and has written a number of unique pieces of literature, including five novels, two novellas, short stories, an autobiography, and over one hundred poems.