Sarah Messer 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.

Choice
2007
ISBN 9781596920637
Bandit letters
2001
ISBN 9781930974081
Red house
2004
ISBN 9781436294577
Dress made of mice
2015
ISBN 9781625579249
Having Once Paused
2015
ISBN 9780472120956