Sarah Messer (born 1966) is an American poet and author.
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.