Mary Jo Bang has published nine books of poems, including A Doll for Throwing (2017); A Film in Which I Play Everyone (2023); and Elegy (2007, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award). Her translation of Dante's Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, was published by Graywolf Press in 2012; Purgatorio was published in 2021, and Paradiso in 2025.