Shannon McKinnon wrote her weekly newspaper column “Slice of Life” from 1991 to 2013. Her work appeared in The Dawson Creek Daily News, The Fort Nelson News, The Grande Prairie Herald Tribune, The Northerner in Fort St. John, The Ottawa Citizen, The Prince Rupert Daily News,The Red Deer Advocate, The Tumbler Ridge News and The Williams Lake Tribune.
Her column “That’s Funny” ran for a dozen years in The Western Producer. She is a regular contributor to Gardens West and Gardens Central magazine.
Shannon lives northwest of Dawson Creek, BC in the Peace River Country - only a few kilometres from where she was raised. She is married to her high school sweetheart Darcy. They have two grown sons.