Maria Elena Tormey Scott is a Mexican American, Chicana bilingual writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Former bilingual educator for 25 years. Her works can be found in the following:

Woodland Pattern’s Creativity and Aging Anthology: Come Be a Memoirist, 2010.

The Wednesday Writer’s Anthology: Each Ear Hears A Different Meaning, 2013

Great: Poems of Resistance and Fortitude, Devoted to November 9, 2016, 2017

Yellow Medicine Review-A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, Spring 2019 and Fall 2019 editions.

Her panel-reading proposal was accepted for the 2020 Split This Rock Poetry Festival:

Poems of Provocation & Witness. (Due to Covid-19 unable to present.)

An excerpt of her hybrid memoir: English Only Has Twenty-Six Letters was published in South Florida Poetry Journal, Feb. 2021

“Love Letter To My Brother Juan” A Memoir In Prose, Poems and Found Text, 2022

“Sparks Of Light Fly” Finishing Line Press. Released April 2023