Sheree La Puma is a poet and recent cancer survivor based in both Los Angeles and Rosarito, Mexico. She often writes about border related issues. Her work has appeared in Frontier Poetry, Lake Effect: An International Literary Journal, The Penn Review, Redivider, Sugar House Review, The Maine Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, London Reader, The Lascaux Review, Salt Hill Literary Journal, Stand Magazine, Rust + Moth, Mantis, and Catamaran Literary Reader, among others. She earned her MFA in writing from CalArts. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of The Net and four Pushcarts. A reader for the Orange Blossom Review, her latest chapbook, Broken: Do Not Use, is currently available at Main Street Rag Publishing.