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Subject
  
Poetry

Name
  
Penelope Schott


Role
  
Poet

Literary movement
  
Feminism

Notable awards
  
2004 Turning Point Poetry Prize Orphic Prize New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry

Books
  
The pest maiden, Penelope: The Story of the Hal, Six Lips, Baiting the Void, May the Generations Die in the

Penelope Scambly Schott is a feminist poet and former professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and Rutgers University. She has published several books of poetry and has taught poetry writing for Thomas Edison State College. At Educational Testing Service in the 1980s she was part of the Guidance Research Group, which developed the SIGI PLUS career information system. Schott is a recipient of the 2004 Turning Point Poetry Prize, the Orphic Prize, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She now resides in Portland, Oregon. She received the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry for "A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth".

Publications

  • Imitatio Redux, Penelope Schott Starkey, College Composition and Communication, Vol. 25, No. 5 (Dec., 1974), pp. 435–437
  • My grandparents were married for sixty-five years, Dept. of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University (1977), ISBN 0-930200-01-2
  • A Little Ignorance, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (1986), ASIN: B000H5764G
  • The Perfect Mother: Snake Nation Press, Incorporated (January 1994), ISBN 0-9638364-0-4
  • Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman : A Narrative Poem, University Press of Florida (December 1998), ISBN 0-8130-1639-8
  • Almost Learning to Live in This World, published by Pudding House Press (2004)
  • The Pest Maiden: A Story Of Lobotomy, WordTech Communications (December 31, 2004), ISBN 1-932339-47-7
  • Baiting the Void, Dream Horse Press (September 30, 2005), ISBN 0-9659307-9-3
  • A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth, Turning Point (2007), ISBN 978-1-933456-68-3
  • Six Lips, Mayapple Press (2010), ISBN 978-0-932412-84-3
  • Crow Mercies, CALYX Books (2010), ISBN 978-0-934971-11-9
  • Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore, Mayapple Press (2013) ISBN 978-1-936419-25-8
  • References

    Penelope Schott Wikipedia