{{Short description|American writer, artist}}

{{Short description|American writer, artist}}

'''Bryn Kelly''' (1980–2016) was an American writer, artist, performer, and community organizer.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-18 |title=Literary Community Mourns Trans Writer Bryn Kelly |url=http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/18/literary-community-mourns-trans-writer-bryn-kelly |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=How Bryn Kelly's Death Irrevocably Changed My Life |url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/bryn-kelly-suicide-essay |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Nylon |date=March 2016 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Kay Gabriel shares her top ten |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202209/kay-gabriel-shares-her-top-ten-89459 |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.artforum.com |date=November 2022 |language=en-US}} Kelly has shown work at [[New Museum]] and performed in conjunction with [[Visual AIDS]] and in Art in the Age of Aquarius at the [[Whitney Museum|Whitney Museum of American Art]].{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=G. O. |date=2016-04-08 |title=Remembering Bryn Kelly |url=http://gomag.com/article/remembering_bryn_kelly146/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=GO Magazine |language=en-US}} She was a member of the Femme Collective, participated in Baltimore's 2012 Femme Conference, and was a cofounder of Theater Transgression, a transgender multimedia performance collective.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-22 |title=The Fully Functional Cabaret |url=https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-fully-functional-cabaret/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Barnard Center for Research on Women |language=en-US}} Her writing and writing performances have appeared in [[Original Plumbing]], [[Manic D Press]], the [[National Queer Arts Festival]], PrettyQueer.com, and EOAGH, A Journal of the Arts, amongst others.{{Cite web |title=Bryn Kelly |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/bryn-kelly/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}}

'''Bryn Kelly''' (1980–2016) was a transgender American writer, artist, performer, and community organizer.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-18 |title=Literary Community Mourns Trans Writer Bryn Kelly |url=http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/1/18/literary-community-mourns-trans-writer-bryn-kelly |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=How Bryn Kelly's Death Irrevocably Changed My Life |url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/bryn-kelly-suicide-essay |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Nylon |date=March 2016 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Kay Gabriel shares her top ten |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/202209/kay-gabriel-shares-her-top-ten-89459 |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.artforum.com |date=November 2022 |language=en-US}} Kelly has shown work at [[New Museum]] and performed in conjunction with [[Visual AIDS]] and in Art in the Age of Aquarius at the [[Whitney Museum|Whitney Museum of American Art]].{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=G. O. |date=2016-04-08 |title=Remembering Bryn Kelly |url=http://gomag.com/article/remembering_bryn_kelly146/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=GO Magazine |language=en-US}} She was a member of the Femme Collective, participated in Baltimore's 2012 Femme Conference, and was a cofounder of Theater Transgression, a transgender multimedia performance collective.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-22 |title=The Fully Functional Cabaret |url=https://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-fully-functional-cabaret/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Barnard Center for Research on Women |language=en-US}} Her writing and writing performances have appeared in [[Original Plumbing]], [[Manic D Press]], the [[National Queer Arts Festival]], PrettyQueer.com, and EOAGH, A Journal of the Arts, amongst others.{{Cite web |title=Bryn Kelly |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/faculty_and_fellows/bryn-kelly/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Lambda Literary |language=en}} She died of an apparent suicide sometime before January 13, 2016.{{Cite web |title=Trans, Queer and HIV Communities Mourn Loss of Writer and Performer Bryn Kelly |url=https://www.thebody.com/article/trans-queer-and-hiv-communities-mourn-loss-of-writ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230603101100/https://www.thebody.com/article/trans-queer-and-hiv-communities-mourn-loss-of-writ |archive-date=2023-06-03 |access-date=2026-02-27 |website=www.thebody.com |language=en-US}}

== Early life and education ==

== Early life and education ==