Ray Starmann was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 1965, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. Ray traces his original interest in writing to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which played nightly during the 1970's. The one hour drama series focused on crime, suspense, thriller and horror episodes. Ray served as an army intelligence officer for eight years. He was serving in Germany when the Berlin Wall fell and was an eyewitness to that event and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. In 1990-1991, Ray served in the Gulf War with the famed 7th Cavalry. Ray worked for Greystone Television as a treatment writer, actor, researcher and associate producer. In 2008, Ray and Sean King teamed up to write "Generation Gap", a Hallmark original movie starring Ed Asner and Rue McClanahan.