Schott, Penelope Scambly

Penelope Scambly Schott’s verse biography, A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth (Turning Point, 2007), won the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. The most recent of her ten books of poetry are Under Taos Mountain: The Terrible Quarrel of Magpie and Tia (Rain Mountain, 2009) and Six Lips (Mayapple, 2010). [bio updated 2011]