Born in Chicago, Ill. in 1965. She grew up in Saltillo, Mexico with her loving family. A dedicated teacher, who has learned as much as she has taught. She is at home at the mountains living among the Huicholes Indians (North of Jalisco, Mexico) which she did for five years before accepting her current teaching position in HISD.
Martha Margarita has been writing since she was 9 years old. Her first of 8 books was published at the age of 17. She is working on her third exhibition of oil painting on canvas, which will have 10 of her new works.
For Martha Margarita Tamez “Poesía es el rocío de la imaginación, sobre un corazón emocionado”. (“Poetry is the dew of the imagination on an excited heart”)