Roland Menge grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1967. He has worked for the past 30 years as a technical writer. His novel Push to Appomattox, on the last year of the American civil war, was completed in 2021,

My primary interest as a literary writer is in serious, realistic fiction with characters who are examined for how they develop and apply their principles and beliefs. My stories are classical in structure and traditional in language and syntax. They often take place within a vast historical and cultural setting, such as, in Against the War, the Vietnam war and the countercultural response.