Shauna Cook Clinger was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1954.  She is a painter of portraits and figurative allegorical pieces.  She lives in Salt Lake City.

Cook Clinger began her art studies under Harold Peterson.  When she was 17, she was awarded a four-year presidential scholarship to study at the University of Utah.  She studied under the academically trained painter, Alvin Gittins, while she was at the University. She graduated magna cum laude in 1976. After she graduated magna cum laude in 1976, she continued to study with Gittins (1978–79) and with William Whitaker of Brigham Young University.

Clinger has had many one-woman shows and group showings. One such group show, Seven Realists, was at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah. Her works also can be seen at the University of Utah Medical Center and at Utah State University. In the autumn 1992, one of her paintings was shown at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Among her notable works are Prayer: Imploring, Resistance, Crucifixion, and Surrender, plates 1 1 and 2 (1993) and Prayer: Imploring, Resistance, Crucifixion, and Surrender, plate 3 and 4 (1993).