Mari L'Esperance's poetry collections are THE DARKENED TEMPLE (University of Nebraska Press) and BEGIN HERE, a chapbook (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press). With Tomás Q. Morín, she has edited COMING CLOSE: FORTY ESSAYS ON PHILIP LEVINE (Prairie Lights Books/University of Iowa Press). L'Esperance is a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University and has received awards from the New York Times, New York University, Prairie Schooner, Hedgebrook, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. She lives in Los Angeles.

The Darkened Temple (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Begin Here (Sarasota Poetry Theater Press, 2000)

Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (a collection of essays edited with Tomás Q. Morín) (University of Iowa Press, 2013), Prairie Schooner Book Prize Tenth Anniversary Reader (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)