Susan E. Connolly

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Susan E. Connolly
BornSusan E. Connolly
c.1980
Ireland
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
Website
seconnolly.co.uk

Susan E. Connolly is an Irish fiction and non-fiction writer who has worked in comics, screenwriting, short fiction and novels. In March 2021, Connolly was announced to be attached as the lead writer of Zom-B, a television series adaptation of the novel series of the same name by Darren Shan.[1] In 2022, Connolly wrote two episodes of the six-part television crime drama Redemption.[2][3][4]

Life and career[edit]

Connolly was born Susan Elizabeth Connolly in Ireland where she was educated and completed a degree in Veterinary Medicine and a diploma in Statistics at University College Dublin. She completed a PhD in St John's College, University of Cambridge, in the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit.[5][6][7]

While in UCD Connolly worked as the Science & Technology Editor as well as the Comment & Opinion Editor for The University Observer, the university's award-winning student newspaper. Her first novel, Damsel, was published by Mercier Press in 2009 under the pen name S.E.Connolly, while her historical comic book, Gráinne O’Malley: Queen’s Gambit, was published by Atomic Diner in 2015. Connolly was the winner of the BBC’s Scriptroom 7. She was selected for European Writers Club 2022 – Boosting Ideas.[8] Connolly has also had work published by Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons and The Center For Digital Ethics.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Screenwriting[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Electric Shadow Company". The Electric Shadow Company. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  2. ^ "ITV Press Centre Redemption Media Pack" (PDF).
  3. ^ "IMbB.com Redemption Episode #1.4".
  4. ^ "IMbB.com Redemption Episode #1.5".
  5. ^ "On reach, dissemination and engagement: shouldn't people read the paper?". CMAJ Blogs. 3 November 2015.
  6. ^ "An Comhrá / The Chat with Susan E Connolly - Dublin 2019". Dublin 2019. 26 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Ryanair 'has no record' of writer told to go to Romania to pick up laptop left on plane at Stansted". Breaking News. 28 July 2016.
  8. ^ "European Writers Club 2022 – Boosting Ideas: Meet the participants".
  9. ^ Lisa Yaszek; Patrick B. Sharp (7 June 2016). Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 352–. ISBN 978-0-8195-7625-5.
  10. ^ "Daily Science Fiction :: 21st Century Dragonslayer's Lament by Susan E. Connolly". dailysciencefiction.com.
  11. ^ "S. E. Connolly". Strange Horizons.
  12. ^ "Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy". Clarkesworld Magazine.
  13. ^ Desk, Digital. "Contrasting styles of descriptive debut | BusinessPost.ie". www.businesspost.ie.
  14. ^ "Periodicals, early July". Locus Online.
  15. ^ "Ferguson's 7 Questions With… Susan E. Connolly |". www.irishcomicnews.dreamhosters.com.
  16. ^ "Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy". Clarkesworld Magazine.

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