Cherry Smyth


Cherry Smyth is an Irish academic, poet, writer and art critic

Biography

Cherry Smyth was born Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She works teaching poetry in Greenwich University's Creative writing department. She had her first collection of poetry published in 2001. She worked on an anthology of women prisoner's writing in 2003 which won the Raymond Williams Community Publishing award. Smyth writes for art magazines including Modern Painters, Art Monthly and Art Review. She is also involved in works on Gender studies.
Criticism of her second collection was