# Sarah Messer

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{{short description|American poet and author (born 1966)}}
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'''Sarah Messer''' (born 1966) is an American poet and author. She was raised in [Marshfield, Massachusetts](/source/Marshfield%2C_Massachusetts), in the [Hatch Homestead](/source/Hatch_Homestead), a house built in the 17th century that was the subject of her book ''Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House''. Messer has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the [Fine Arts Work Center](/source/Fine_Arts_Work_Center) in Provincetown, and others. In 2008-2009, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

Messer earned undergraduate and master's degrees from [Middlebury College](/source/Middlebury_College) and the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan), respectively. For many years she taught as an associate professor at the [University of North Carolina at Wilmington](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Wilmington) in the Department of Creative Writing. In 2010, Messer co-founded One Pause Poetry, an on-line audio archive and reading series in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently she teaches at the Residential College at the University of Michigan, and is a cheese maker at White Lotus Farms.

==Works==
* 2001 ''[Bandit Letters: Poems](/source/Bandit_Letters)'', poetry collection ({{ISBN|1-930974-08-6}})
* 2004 ''[Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House](/source/Red_House%3A_Being_a_Mostly_Accurate_Account_of_New_England's_Oldest_Continuously_Lived-In_House)'', memoir ({{ISBN|0-670-03315-4}})
* 2015 ''[Dress Made of Mice: Poems](/source/Dress_Made_of_Mice%3A_Poems)'', poetry collection ({{ISBN|978-1-62557-924-9}})
* 2015 ''[Having Once Pause: Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu](/source/Having_Once_Pause%3A_Poems_of_Zen_Master_Ikkyu)'', translation, poetry collection ({{ISBN|978-0-472-05256-1}})
* 2017 Breakout

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712155721/http://www.uncw.edu/writers/facstaff/messer.html Faculty Bio page] – UNC-Wilmington, Creative Writing department
* [https://lsa.umich.edu/rc/people/faculty/bliss.html—UM{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ], Residential College, Creative Writing department
* [http://www.blacklawrence.com/dress-made-of-mice/—Black{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ] Lawrence Press Website
* [https://www.press.umich.edu/7739022/having_once_paused—University Having Once Paused] of Michigan Press Website
* [http://www.onepausepoetry.org/--One ] Pause Poetry
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women poets

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