Gera-Lind Kolarik has been a journalist in Chicago since 1976 where she was a police reporter with City News Bureau and a freelance reporter with the former Chicago Daily News. She has also worked as a news assignment editor for the CBS and ABC television affiliates for ten years. She received an Emmy Award in 1984 for Best Spot News Reporting and was nominated in 1985 for an Emmy as a producer in an investigative reporting series. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors; Sisters in Crime; Association for Women Journalists; International Crime Writers Association; Mystery Writers of America; Society for Professional Journalists; International Press Club; and the Chicago Newspaper Reporters Association. Kolarik is also a contributor to Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, Chicago Magazine, and the American Bar Association Journal. She is a frequent speaker concerning the role of journalists in reporting women-related crime stories. Prisoners of Fear is Kolarik s third book. She has previously written Freed to Kill (1992) and I Am Cain (1994). Kolarik lives in Chicago.
