Shanna Hogan is a New York Times bestselling American non-fiction author and journalist who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She is best known for writing the book Picture Perfect about convicted killer Jodi Arias.
Biography and education
Hogan was born in Olathe, Kansas, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2005, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Arizona State University.
Career
She was a reporter at the East Valley Tribune from 2004 to 2007. In 2008, she went to work for the Times Media Group as a features editor, where in 2012 she was promoted to executive editor. Hogan has written four true crime books, with her first, Dancing with Death, about Phoenix housewife Marjorie Orbin and the death of her husband Jay, an art dealer, released by St. Martin's Press in 2011. It was followed by Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story, released in September 2013 by St. Martin's True Crime Library about the Travis Alexander murder in Mesa, Arizona. A third book, The Stranger She Loved, was released by St. Martin's in March 2015, about the murder of Utah doctor Martin MacNeil's wife, Michele, and his 2013 conviction. Her fourth book, Secrets of a Marine’s Wife, released by St. Martin’s in February 2019, is about the 2014 murder of 19-year-old pregnant Marine wife Erin Corwin. Hogan has appeared on Dateline NBC, ABC's 20/20, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, "Inside Edition," and Oxygen's "Snapped" to discuss high-profile crime cases. She has also appeared on Jane Velez-Mitchell HLN's Dr. Drew On Call, and multiple crime shows on the Investigation Discovery channel. On January 10, 2014, she was on The View with attorney and correspondent Darren Kavinoky in a panel discussion of the Jodi Arias case. In 2017, Hogan co-authored The Crime Book volume with American crime writersLee Mellor, Rebecca Morris, Cathy Scott, and British author Michael Kerrigan, with a foreword for the U.S. edition by Scott and the U.K. edition by author Peter James. It was released in April 2017 in the U.K. and May 2017 in the U.S. by Dorling Kindersley. In March 2019, Hogan co-hosted with editor Charlie Spicer the first series of the true-crime podcast "Case Closed" from Macmillan Books, featuring the case of convicted killer Erin Corwin.
Awards
Hogan was awarded the 2009 Arizona Press Club's Virg Hill "Journalist of the Year." She was also awarded "Journalist of the Year 2011" by the Arizona Newspaper Association. Hogan's book, Picture Perfect, debuted the week of September 22, 2013 at number 16 on The New York Times bestseller list for e-book nonfiction and combined print and e-book nonfiction the same week at number 23.
