About Cristín Leach

Cristín Leach is the author of the critically acclaimed divorce-art memoir Negative Space and the RHA bicentenary book From Ten Till Dusk. As art critic for The Sunday Times Ireland, she wrote and published more than half a million words about Irish art between 2003 and 2023.

Her audio essays and multimedia works have been broadcast and exhibited internationally, and her short fiction has been published in the Irish literary journals Winter Papers and The Four Faced Liar. She makes radio programmes for RTÉ Lyric FM and is an occasional presenter on RTÉ Radio 1's flagship arts show, Arena. 

She was Writer in Residence for the 2021 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival, a Birr Writer in Residence in 2025, and the recipient of a 2026 writing residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, France. Her writing is Arts Council funded, and her work is part of the OPW Irish State Art Collection.

Negative Space was a number 5 Irish non-fiction bestseller in 2022 and an RTÉ Radio 1 Book on One in 2024.