Janet Tamaro

Janet Tamaro is an American television writer, series creator, executive producer, and showrunner. She began her career as an on-camera television correspondent for ABC NEWSOne, Inside Edition, and the Travel Channel. Tamaro has written for several television series, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lost, Bones, and CSI: NY. She worked as a freelance writer for the first season of Lost and won the Writers Guild of America award for Best Dramatic Series. Tamaro was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on Sleeper Cell. In 2010, she created the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles, based on the crime novels by Tess Gerritsen.