Elma Johnson Stuckey (1907–1988) was an African American poet and school teacher.
[2] She attended Manassas High School in Memphis and obtained her teacher's certificate from Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee.
She worked as a teacher and ran a nursery school in rural Tennessee before moving to Chicago in 1945, where she was a supervisor for the Illinois Department of Labor.
As a poet, Stuckey first gained attention by reading her works on Studs Terkel's WFMT radio program.
[4] She died on September 25, 1988, during a visit to Washington, D.C., where she was scheduled to record readings of her poetry for the Smithsonian Institution.