Background
A daughter of Puerto Rican immigrant parents, she was born and raised in New York City.
A daughter of Puerto Rican immigrant parents, she was born and raised in New York City.
Sapia studied at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
After working as a newspaper reporter and technical writer, she returned to academia, receiving an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Florida in Gainesville. She now teaches at Florida Gateway College. Sapia"s first poetry collection of poetry Fertile Crescent was published in 1983.
The title poem was also included in The Best American Poetry 1989 anthology.