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.