Tamara Becher was born in Queens, New York and raised in the human humidor that is Southern Florida. At an early age she developed a formidable addiction to television and attending the University of Miami Film School was the most expensive way she could think of to deal with it.

After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles and became the post-production assistant on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." It was there that she was introduced to television writing, which became like a third nipple: inexplicably appealing, yet too expensive to remove surgically. In between her various script coordinating jobs, fronting her punk band and eating lots of candy she managed to do a little writing. And eventually, it paid off.

In 2008 she was selected to participate in NBC's "Writer's on the Verge" writing program. Soon afterwards she landed her first staffing job on the SyFy Channel's "Warehouse 13" and went on to write for Fox's "The Good Guys" and "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." She's currently a writer on "Covert Affairs."