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), ISBN0-930200-01-2
A Little Ignorance, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. (1986), ASIN: B000H5764G
The Perfect Mother: Snake Nation Press, Incorporated (January 1994), ISBN0-9638364-0-4
Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman : A Narrative Poem, University Press of Florida (December 1998), ISBN0-8130-1639-8
Almost Learning to Live in This World, published by Pudding House Press (2004)