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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Book List in Order: 7 titles



  • “In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s haunting story collection, intricate family dramas . . . play out against the luminous, wide-open backdrop of New Mexico.” -- Los Angeles Times   In his first foray into short fiction, award-winnin...



  • “[A] blistering novel” of family, loyalty, ambition, and revenge that offers an intimate look into the tragedies unfurling at the US-Mexico border (Publishers Weekly).   The promise of a new beginning brings Casimiro and Nopal together when ...



  • American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured years in the penal system before becoming a writer and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life ...



  • In this beautiful, boisterous account, by turns soul-searching and erotic, acclaimed Chicano and Native-American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca reveals the story of his life as told through his face. An orphan, a runaway, and an inmate in a maximum-securit...



  • American Book Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca endured decades in the penal system before becoming a renowned poet and a father. In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents, with brutal honesty, ...



  • “There’s no way you can do this reentry thing,” Orlando Lucero tells himself after getting out of prison. He has spent most of his life institutionalized, first in an orphanage and then in the Denver Youth Authority for smuggling we...






Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jimmy Santiago Baca has published 7 books.

Jimmy Santiago Baca does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Laughing in the Light, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Jimmy Santiago Baca, The Importance of a Piece of Paper, was published in February 2005.

No. Jimmy Santiago Baca does not write books in series.