Cherry Smyth is an Irish critic, curator and poet living in London. She is the author of Queer Notions, Scarlet Press, 1992 and Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists, Cassell, 1996. Her short fiction has been included in The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing, 2000. She published essays on Jane and Louise Wilson, Orla Barry, Dirk Braeck-man. She writes regularly for Art Monthly, Circa, Dazed and Confused and Source magazines. She curated Misbegotten at the Florence Trust, 2002 and the Summer Show in 2002 and 2003.