Delores Gauntlett

Delores Gauntlett (née McAnuff) is a Jamaican poet whose work has appeared in regional and international publications.

Freeing her Hands to Clap was short-listed for the 2000 National Book Development Council/Una Marson Biannual Award. Gauntlett's second book of poetry, The Watertank Revisited, was published in 2005.

Born in St. Ann, Jamaica, Gauntlett developed a love for poetry around the age of eight, reciting poems at government-sponsored art festivals, community concerts, and for fun during school recess at Dinthill Technical High. Years later, in 2000, she decided to take a deeper look at poetry and poetry writing and enrolled in Wayne Brown's Poetry Workshops. Her poems appeared in a range of anthologies, including The Poetry Society Poetry News, and a selection translated into Spanish in Poetas del Caribe Anglófono. She received the 1999 David Hough prize and the 2006 Daily News prize from The Caribbean Writer. She also won won the Jamaica Observer Literary Competitions and the 2007 U.K. Poetry Society's Poetry News-Members' Poem Competition. She was shortlisted for the National Book Development Competition and the 2009 Small Axe competitions. She was runner-up for the Hamish Canham Prize. She was also nominated and inducted into the recently established Jamaica Poetry Archive of the National Library of Jamaica. Her work was annotated by Yvonna Rousseva in San Jose State University's project, "Bibliography of a Caribbean Poet". Her poem was selected for the Poetry 2012 Written World Project, a BBC collaboration with The Scottish Poetry Library, showcasing poems from each participating nation in the 2012 London Summer Olympics.