Sarah Stockton is the author of the poetry collection The Scarecrow of My Former Self: poems of illness and grace (MoonPath Press 2024), a finalist for the Sally Albiso Award. Her work also includes two chapbooks: Time's Apprentice (dancing girl press 2021) and Castaway (Glass Lyre Press 2022). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, About Place Journal, Blue Mountain Review, Rogue Agent, Whale Road Review, Crab Creek Review, and many others, including anthologies. Sarah lives near the Salish Sea, in the Pacific Northwest.

Other poems on the web by Sarah Stockton:
Two poems
"Far Away"
Three poems
"The Color of My Uncle's Car"
Two poems
Two poems
"Haven"

Sarah Stockton's Website.

Sarah Stockton on Twitter.

About The Scarecrow of My Former Self:

"With vulnerability and gorgeous, lush imagery, Sarah Stockton presents a portrait of a life not defined by illness but circumscribed by it; a hybrid life of hospital visits and encounters with crystal healers, coyotes, iguanas. Stockton's poems of simultaneous rage and grace illuminate the realities of the chronically ill."
—Jeannine Hall Gailey

"Sarah Stockton's The Scarecrow of My Former Self is a quiet, delicate hymn of the bodymind that both aspires and persists; though the poet confesses she 'can't really do much / for... the world,' - and yet. This book is a reclamation of visibility not just for Stockton's speaker, but for all who have a chronic illness. These poems create a metaphorical scarecrow, a kind of spiritual scaffold on which to hang some hope. Like a conjurer, Stockton creates a world of desire crafted from 'bloodied dancing shoes, a mask // and a sea green bathing suit...."
—Jill Khoury