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'''Sarah Messer''' (born 1966) is an American poet and author. She was raised in [[Marshfield, Massachusetts]], 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 [[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]] and the [[University of Michigan]], respectively. For many years she taught as an associate professor at the [[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.