Richard Manning grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied Cinema Production at the University of Southern California. He has lived and worked as a television writer and producer in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Sydney. His credits include »Farscape«, »When Calls the Heart«, »TekWar«, »Star Trek: The Next Generation«, and »Fame«. He has also written episodes of »Sliders«, »Star Trek: Deep Space Nine«, »Exosquad«, »Space Precinct«, and »She-Wolf of London«, and has co-created »Beyond Reality«, a half-hour science-fiction/fantasy drama. He frequently teaches television writing for the UCLA Extension Writers‘ Program and has thrice been a lecturer for the MA Serial Storytelling programme at the ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln.