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Delia Jarrett-Macauley (DMS, Ph.D., FRSA) is an acomplished writer, academic and broadcaster with a career spanning over 20 years. Her impressive body of work is held in high regard both nationally and internationally.

Since the mid-1980s, Delia has worked extensively in the cultural sector, including a period as Director of the Independent Theatre Council, and later as a consultant to Arts Council England. She also managed the pan-African dance summer school and co-ordinated educational projects for African Players. In the 1990s she was joint director of the National Theatre’s project, Transmission, which focused on arts and social change in Europe.

In 1998, she published THE LIFE OF UNA MARSON, a biography of the Jamaican poet, social activist and feminist. Her first novel, MOSES, CITIZEN & ME, won the Orwell prize for political writing in 2006.

Delia has contributed to a number of academic publications as author and board member including Feminist Review, Women’s History Review, Journal of Gender Studies and Gender and History. She now lives in South London, where she is writing her second novel.