[1] In 2022, Connolly wrote two episodes of the six-part television crime drama Redemption.
[2][3][4] 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.
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.
[8] Connolly has also had work published by Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons and The Center For Digital Ethics.