Sarah Messer (born 1966) is an American poet and author. She was raised in

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, in the 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

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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

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and the

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, respectively. For many years she taught as an associate professor at the

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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'', poetry collection () * 2004 '' Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House'', memoir () * 2015 '' Dress Made of Mice: Poems'', poetry collection () * 2015 '' Having Once Pause: Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu'', translation, poetry collection () * 2017 Breakout

External links

Faculty Bio page
– UNC-Wilmington, Creative Writing department

Residential College, Creative Writing department

Lawrence Press Website
Having Once Paused
of Michigan Press Website

Pause Poetry 1966 births Living people University of Michigan alumni American women poets 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers {{US-poet-1960s-stub