Joseph Berg Esenwein (May 16, 1867 – November 1, 1946) was an American editor, lecturer and writer.

He was president of Albright Collegiate Institute in 1895–96, and in the following year held the position of educational director of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington Heights, New York City.

After a year of foreign travel, he became professor of English in the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, subsequently giving up teaching in 1903 to become manager of the Booklovers' Magazine.

Two years later, he was made editor and manager of Lippincott's Magazine, a position which he held until 1914 while teaching a private course on short-story writing.

Esenwein's published works, besides articles contributed to Charles Dudley Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature, include: Esenwein married Caroline Miller in 1889.