Born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, she comes from a hard-working family. She has lived in L.A. for twelve years. She has worked as a Capitol Hill staffer, a prosecutor, and now as a defense attorney. Shannon loves politics, social justice, films and books. She is the author of Hope Defined, about a weird thirteen year-old scientist with superpowers that are connected to space. In 2017 Shannon releases Skin Trials.