Susan Shanks is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted for her work on the documentary film Ghosts of Afghanistan, for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.^[1]

She has also been a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Editing, receiving nods at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997 for The Hanging Garden^[2] and at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000 for Beefcake.^[3]

Her other credits have included the films Bravery in the Field, Ups and Downs, The Bay Boy, 3 Needles, Steel Toes and The Gospel According to the Blues.