Crow Mercies Tapa blanda - 2010

Winner of CALYX' first Sarah Lantz Memorial Poetry Book Prize, author Penelope Scambly Schott received her MA and PhD in English Literature from City University of New York. During her career, she taught literature and creative writing as a professor at Rutgers University with Adrienne Rich, counseled returning students at Somerset County College in NJ, and wrote software scripts for career guidance. She is currently a faculty consultant to Thomas A. Edison State College, Trenton, New Jersey.
She has published three historical verse narratives, four collections of poetry and five chapbooks, along with a conversation in poetry with Kathryn Stripling Byer. She has edited a collection called Canal.
Recipient of: the Hopwood Award; a Lannan Foundation Fellowship; Poetry Society of America prize; four fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts; Dodge Foundation Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center; Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship; the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, 2008.
She participates in several poetry groups including the Cool Women Poets of New Jersey, The Pearls (Portland, OR), Word Sisters, and the Tabus. She is a member of numerous environmental organizations, both national and local.