Sherry Scott , M.D., is a pediatrician who has practiced palliative/hospice care for children and general medicine. She self-published her first literary  work, The Year My Mother Died, 2011. 

Scott obtained her biology degree from Austin College, completed medical school and residency training at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

She founded Paris Poet’s Society and published a juried anthology of poetry and photography:What Brings You Here, 2016. She serves on the board of the Gendercide Awareness Project, founded in Dallas, Texas. She resides with her family in Paris, Texas.