Penelope Scambly Schott

Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of four previous chapbooks plus a novel and seven full-length poetry books including three historical verse narratives, Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman, The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy, and A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Oregon Book Award for Poetry, 2008), as well as four lyric collections, The Perfect Mother (Violet Reed Hass Prize, 1994), Baiting the Void (Orphic Prize, 2005), May the Generations Die in the Right Order, and Six Lips. At home in Portland, Oregon (where she is never harassed by magpies), Penelope works, hikes, paints, and spoils her family, especially Lily Schott Sweetdog.