(written from a Production point of view)
Edithe Swensen (born 5 September 1953; age 70)is a writer and producer who wrote with Brannon Braga the teleplay for the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Imaginary Friend". She was interviewed by Bill Florence for the article "Edithe Swensen: Pal of the "Imaginary Friend"" in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 27, pp. 52-55.
Swensen worked as executive story editor, writer for five episodes and later co-producer on Odyssey 5 between 2002 and 2003, created by Manny Coto and starring Peter Weller and Leslie Silva. She previously worked as story editor and writer of three episodes on Charmed (1998-1999).
Swensen also wrote stories for episodes of Crossbow (1987), Tales from the Darkside (1985-1988), Monsters (1988-1991), The Hidden Room (1991, with Barbara Williams), Xena: Warrior Princess (2000), Witchblade (2001), and Beach Girls (2005). Other writing credits include the movie The Adventures of William Tell (1989), They (1993), the television thriller Voice from the Grave (1996, with Robert Knepper, April Grace, and Eric Menyuk), the drama Too Young to Be a Dad (2002, with Bruce Davison), Student Seduction (2003), the television drama All the Good Ones Are Married (2007), the drama Safe Harbour (2007, with Kate Vernon and Jack Donner), The Governor's Wife (2008, with Emily Bergl and Deborah Van Valkenburgh), and the television movie Our First Christmas (2008, with Julie Warner and Richard Riehle).
More recently, Swensen wrote the television drama Bond of Silence (2010, with Greg Grunberg and Rob LaBelle) and Who is Clark Rockefeller? (2010, with Stephen McHattie) on which she also worked as producer.