About Shannon

Hello there!

Shannon Skaer writes fiction. She writes it in her head whenever she sees a photo of a bog body or a petroglyph scrawled on a canyon wall, or when she reads about the violent storms of the early Ice Age. And every now and then, she writes a story down.

This is why I’ve ended up with nine kids. Look at this child and tell me you wouldn’t go back for more.
This photo is a capsule of us. We’re having a great time together in a field of flowers, I’m wearing his coat, he’s holding the fussy baby for me.

Shannon is an ancient history aficionado, homeschool mom, science nerd, beekeeper, and an unabashed fan of cheesy sci-fi TV. She lives in a small logging town in Oregon with her very own hero and their ten children.

Her life could best be described as a love affair with beauty–which explains the number of babies–and her greatest joy is to know God, from whom all beauty comes.

In 2025, she won the Vision Christian Writer’s Most Promising Writer award and semi-finaled in ACFW’s Genesis award, and the Aurora Awards. She has also been longlisted in History through Fiction.

Shannon is represented by Bob Hostetler of the Steve Laube Agency. 

Want to get to know her a little better? Check out the true story of her chaotic visit to NYC in a 30ft RV.

Geeking out at the Cahokia mounds near St. Louis.
Me and my man
At the Ark Encounter
Just me and a girl from ancient Egypt. NBD.

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