Reading Pelican's Daughter felt like stepping into the very "cathedral with wings" Stockton yearningly summons. This book is an intimate, attentive, and coasting exploration (like the central pelican totem itself) of loss in many iterations-of parents, of selves, of obligation and posturing. In Stockton's deft and wondering hands, these poems have hollow-bones: the space for breath and questions to sing through, the structure capable and necessary to allow grief a graceful flight. -Lisbeth White, author of American Sycamore , winner of the Perugia Press Prize Sarah Stockton is the author of the chapbooks Time's Apprentice (dancing girl press, 2021) and Castaway (Glass Lyre Press, 2022) and the full-length The Scarecrow of My Former Self (MoonPath Press, 2024), a finalist for both the Sally Albiso Award and the Washington StateBook Award for Poetry. Sarah is the founder and EIC of River Mouth Review. Her poems have appeared in About Place Journal, GlassPoetry, Blue Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, Poetry Northwest, Whale Road Review, Psaltery & Lyre, and Rogue Agent, among others, including several anthologies. Sarah Stockton lives on the Olympic Peninsula by the Salish Sea, in Washington state.