Born in Kobe, Japan, Mari L'Esperance is a Hapa poet whose work has appeared in several literary journals and anthologies. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at New York University, a former New York Times Company Foundation Creative Writing Fellow, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and the recipient of residency fellowships from Hedgebrook and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, L'Esperance lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Darkened Temple (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)

Begin Here (Sarasota Poetry Theater Press, 2000)