Biography

Writer Edithe Swensen grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. Swensen has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Wheaton College in Illinois and a Master's in English from Penn State. Edithe and her husband Stephen started their married life living together in Tangier, Morocco before eventually moving back to America. Swensen began her writing career in television in the mid-1980's. Edithe has written a handful of TV movies as well as for various TV shows. Outside of writing, Swensen is also a trained yoga instructor who leads classes at the Wilton branch of the Saratoga Regional YMCA in Saratoga, New York. Moreover, her son Matthew is an English teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle in Delmar, New York while her daughter Katie works as a microbiologist in Atlanta, Georgia.
- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

[on what gives her the most joy] Writing. Writing is like meditation.

Once you write a screenplay, you really have to detach yourself from it because it's someone else's property when they pay you for it.

[on the screenwriting business] It's all about money, unfortunately. You don't write screenplays because you're going to write something that people will read 100 years from now. You write it because it's a great way to make a living.

[on the hardest part of being a screenwriter] Probably that you are freelance and every time you start a project you get a new set of people, a whole new set of bosses, a whole new set of underlings.