Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, A Place to Stand , the story of which is now also a documentary by the same title. In addition to seven books of poetry, he has published memoirs,...See more

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word. He is a winner of the prestigious International Award for his memoir, A Place to Stand , the story of which is now also a documentary by the same title. In addition to seven books of poetry, he has published memoirs, essays, stories, and a movie screenplay-- Bound by Honor . He lives in New Mexico. See less