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^[when?] poetry writing for Thomas Edison State College.^{[citation needed]}

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^[when?] resides in Portland, Oregon. She received the 2008 Oregon Book Award in poetry for "A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth".^{[citation needed]}

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