Esme is a poet, attorney, and non-fiction writer living in Barrington, Rhode Island, with her husband and college-age son. Her poetry has appeared in Motherscope, Spadina Literary Review, Streetlight Magazine, Solum Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite and numerous other publications. She is a former English teacher and academic reference librarian and has been running a book group at the women's maximum security prison in Rhode Island for 10 years.