Mari L’Esperance

Mari L’Esperance’s collection The Darkened Temple (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) was awarded a Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. An earlier collection, Begin Here (Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press, 2001), was awarded a Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize. With Tomás Q. Morín, she coedited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (Prairie Lights Books/University of Iowa Press, 2013). Born in Kobe, Japan, and raised in Southern California, Guam, and Japan, Mari lives and writes in the Los Angeles, CA, area.