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          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
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          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
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          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
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          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Penelope Scambly Schott

Penelope Scambly Schott

Penelope Scambly Schott is the author of a novel, ten full-length poetry books, and six chapbooks. Her verse biography A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth won an Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Recent books include Lovesong for Dufur and Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore. Published in 2014 was How I Became an Historian. Penelope lives in Portland and Dufur, Oregon where she teaches a notorious poetry workshop.

Penelope Scambly Schott will give a Pop-Up Reading at 4pm in Northwest Art (Main Building, 3rd Floor).

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