Madison BookBeat host Angie Trudell Vasquez speaks with writer Maria Elena Scott on her new memoir about moving to Madison, Wisconsin from Matamoros, Mexico when she was a young girl in 1967. Maria Elena and her brother Juan grew up in an orphanage during the 1950s and the 1960s. When she was 10 she was adopted but her brother was not. How they end up together is a testament to their love and devotion to each other. This is a collection of prose, poetry and found text.
Maria Elena Tormey Scott is a Mexican American, bilingual writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Education. Former bilingual educator for 25 years Her works can be found in the following: Come Be A Memoirist-Woodland Pattern’s Creativity and Aging Anthology (2010) Each Ear Hears A Different Meaning: Voices of Woodland Pattern’s Wednesday Writers (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. English Only Has Twenty-Six Letters, an essay published on-line in South Florida Poetry Journal (February 2021.) Frost On the Chrysanthemum- a poem published in Riverwest Currents (September 2021) Love Letter To My Brother Juan, a Memoir In Prose, Poetry and Found Text (February 2022) He Always Climbed Back-an excerpt from Love Letter To My Brother Juan published in Riverwest Currents (March 2022)
