Shannon Henry Kleiber is an award-winning author, newspaper journalist and radio and podcast producer based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Shannon was a senior producer and interviewer for "To the Best of Our Knowledge," a national public radio show from Wisconsin Public Radio and PRX. Before that, she was a staff writer and columnist for The Washington Post, where she covered technology culture for the Business section. Shannon has written two nonfiction books, “The Dinner Club,” about the dot com boom and bust era, and “On My Honor” about Girl Scouts of the USA founder Juliette Gordon Low.

The public radio show "On Pilgrimage With Dorothy Day," in which Shannon walks in the New York City footsteps of the activist, mother and journalist up for sainthood in the Catholic Church, aired on more than 200 stations around the country and won a Gabriel Award, a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Wilbur Award.

A three-part series from "To the Best of Our Knowledge" Shannon co-executive produced, “Going for Broke,” about Americans on the edge of the economy, won first place in the 2023 National Headliner Awards for best civic/political affairs podcast. The series, created in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, where she is a contributing journalist, also won an EPPY from Editor & Publisher and a Gold Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editor Awards.

Shannon's newsletter is Cadence: On Writing & Sound.