Sarah Messer

Sarah Messer
Author of Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-In House (Viking, 2004) and the poetry collection Bandit Letters (New Issues, 2001), Sarah Messer has received fellowships and grants from organizations including the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, and Quarterly West, as well as several anthologies. A graduate of Middlebury College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, she lives in North Carolina, where she is associate professor of creative writing at The University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is currently working on two new books of poetry and a novel.

Sarah Messer's work can be found elswhere online:

Reviews:
The Poetry Society of America Critic's Page

Interviews:
Third Coast
The Connection, WBUR, Boston

Posted on July 15, 2005 7:22 AM