Stephanie Shannon was born on 5 October 1984 in Arlington, Texas, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for For All Mankind (2019) and Outlander (2014).
Stephanie won one of five fellowships from the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting's 2013 competition with her script, Queen of Hearts. During the awards ceremony, a portion of the screenplay was performed live before a full house at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills by Elle Fanning, Jason Isaacs, Taraji P. Henson, and Anton Yelchin under the direction of Rodrigo Garcia.