Scott Ezell studied literature and Chinese at the Universities of California and Washington.  He began writing and performing original music in coffee houses at age 18. 

         In 1992 he went to Taiwan to study Chinese language and literature.  He became fluent in Mandarin and lived in Asia for the next dozen years.  He worked as a studio musician, recording engineer, record producer, recording artist, and newspaper columnist.  He performed and recorded with local Chinese and aboriginal musicians.  In 2002 Ezell moved to a remote aboriginal village on the Pacific coast of Taiwan, where he built a recording studio and made documentary recordings of aboriginal elders.  There he wrote and recorded the instrumental album “Ocean Hieroglyphics,” which was internationally released by Wind Records.  The poems accompanying this album were published in Chinese translation in Taiwanese literary journals and were called by a national reviewer “the purest expression of this coast since the songs and dance of the Amis tribe.” 

         Scott Ezell has composed and recorded music for several films, including Edward A. Burger’s “A Life in Shadows.”  In 2004 he directed and composed music for “Urban Hieroglyphics,” a performance art collaboration with Chinese dancers and an internationally acclaimed Beijing painter.  In 2005 he wrote the epic-length poem cycle “Petroglyph Americana” and performed solo and in ensembles in the western United States.  In 2006 he lived in Barcelona and performed with local flamenco dancers and musicians, and wrote the folksongs collected in the album “Gray Flowers.”

         Scott Ezell’s writing has been published in Europe, Asia, and America. He now lives and works in Seattle.