title: Shannon Masters
text: # Shannon Masters
  
  Shannon Masters is a Canadian screenwriter. She is best known for the film Empire of Dirt, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.
  
  Of Cree descent, she is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre's screenwriting program.
  
  In 2021 she was announced as the writer and showrunner for a television adaptation of Michelle Good's award-winning novel Five Little Indians.
  
  