Michele Kriegman, was born, relinquished, and adopted in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College and received a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate scholarship to Sophia University's Department of Mass Communications in Tokyo. There she began a journalism career at ABC News, followed by multi-year assignments with Nippon TV's top-rated morning show, among others, and was a producer on a Gabriel Award-winning documentary on Peace Studies in Boston and Hiroshima.Having worked in a second career as a cybersecurity professional for over fifteen years, Michele now devotes herself to writing full time, focusing on two genres: cybercrime mysteries, and search and reunion novels. Her 2014 indie debut novel, Tapioca Fire, written under her birth-name Suzanne Gilbert, is the prequel to The Birth-Fathers' Club Series: ROCK MEMOIR, From a Desert City by the Sea, and Finding Faith. She speaks as keynote, panelist, and presenter on both technology and child welfare topics.