Janet Tamaro

Janet Tamaro is a writer, show runner and series creator. She created "Rizzoli & Isles," TNT's long-running, hit female cop show. She served as EP/show runner for 4 seasons and was named one of Variety's Top 50 show runners three years in a row. She has sold multiple pilots: to Amazon, 20th/Fox, Lifetime and HBO. Her current projects include the suspense-thriller one-hour dramatic series, "Hawk" (based on the Dean Koontz "Jane Hawk" book series) with Anonymous Content and Paramount TV Studios, and "The Gulf," based on her original screenplay for Lifetime. Tamaro was a police reporter and a television correspondent before becoming a screenwriter. She covered national news for ABC News, among other news outlets. In addition to covering crime stories, she reported and produced national investigative stories and won several journalism awards for her work. Tamaro has a B.A. from Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. She's the author of the best-selling parenting book,