September 20, 2012
Christine Swanberg’s poetry books includeTonight on This Late Road (Erie St., 1984),Invisible String (Erie St., 1990), Bread Upon the Waters (UW: Whitewater, 1990), Slow Miracle (Lake Shore, 1992), The Tenderness of Memory (Plainview Press, 1995), The Red Lacquer Room (Chiron Press, 2001), and Who Walks Among the Trees with Charity (2005). The Alleluia Tree, her newest collection, is from Puddin’head Press. Her work appears in anthologies such as Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Travel, I am Becoming the Woman I’ve Wanted, Jane’s Stories, Key West: An Anthology, and Still Going Strong and in journals such as Lilipoh, Spoon River Quarterly, Chiron, Kansas Quarterly, Creative Woman, Earth’s Daughters, and Wind.
Penelope Scambly Schott’s verse biography, A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth, received the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her most recent book, Crow Mercies, 2010, was awarded the Sarah Lantz Memorial Award from Calyx Press. She is the author of a novel, eight full-length books of poetry, and five chapbooks. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wurlitzer Foundation, and her work has appeared in many journals. Penelope has worked as a home health aide, an artist’s model, a donut maker in a cider mill, and—more than anything else—as a teacher. She offers poetry workshops in Dufur, Oregon and elsewhere.