Dave Bench has spent most of his adult life working in the healthcare industry. However, he retired in May 2022 to devote more time to writing and music. Dave developed a renewed interest in writing in 2015 after illustrating The New Kid, a children’s book written by his wife, Liesl, in 1996. Yes, he can be a bit of a procrastinator. He has since written and illustrated two other children’s books, Take Me to the Zoo! and Take Me to the Beach! He completed his first novella, Hawking’s Highway, in 2021, and Death in the Shadow of Oberon followed in the summer of 2022. All are published under Bench Press Publishing through Lulu and are available in paperback and eBook format from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and many other online sellers. An Elegy for Fools is listed as Book One of the Tibaran Chronicles; If all goes well, there will be two more: Ti’irnok’s End and Terra Reborn—a prequel and a sequel. When he’s not writing, Dave enjoys cooking, playing guitar and Hofner electric bass, and spending time with his family (including an African Gray parrot with an attitude). Dave lives in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can find more at: www.benchpress-publishing.com.