Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based transgender writer, film critic, and cultural commentator. She is the author of Malediction and Pee Play, an excerpt from her memoir Bottomfeeder, and her writing has been featured in the acclaimed anthology The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press). Sherilyn’s stories, including The Last Dog and Pony Show and Sherilyn’s Skool for Girlz, explore identity, emotion, and pop culture with incisive wit and deeply personal insight. In addition to her literary work, she writes about film and television for Medialoper and the Gawker Media blog io9, and serves as the head film critic for SF Weekly. Her critical writing has also appeared in The Village Voice.
A lifelong lover of libraries, she is pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science with the goal of becoming an archivist. Sherilyn began her gender transition at age 25 and has written candidly about her journey and the cultural challenges trans women face, both in media portrayals and real life. Fiercely independent and refreshingly self-aware, she describes her political action as simply being herself, “largely without compromise.” Sherilyn continues to write, critique, and archive, driven by curiosity, resilience, and a dry sense of humor she never leaves at home.
