Jimmy Santiago Baca

About Jimmy Santiago Baca

Birth Day: January 2, 1952
Birth Place: New Mexico
Birth Sign: Capricorn

Jimmy Santiago Baca Net Worth

Jimmy Santiago Baca net worth and salary: Jimmy Santiago Baca is a Poet who has a net worth of $1.1 Million. Jimmy Santiago Baca was born in in January 2, 1952. American poet and author whose poetry collections include Healing Earthquakes, Set This Book on Fire, and Black Mesa Poems. His numerous literary awards include the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and the International Hispanic Heritage Award.
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💰Jimmy Santiago Baca Net worth: $1.1 Million (Updated at 15 March 2019)

About

American poet and author whose poetry collections include Healing Earthquakes, Set This Book on Fire, and Black Mesa Poems. His numerous literary awards include the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and the International Hispanic Heritage Award.

Before Fame

He taught himself to read and write while serving a six-year prison sentence for drug possession. He details this experience in a 2001 memoir entitled A Place to Stand.

Trivia

He was born into a family of both Chicano and Apache heritage.

Family Life

His parents abandoned him when he was two years old, and he was eventually turned over to an orphanage by his grandmother.

Associated With

He was born in the same year as Gary Soto, a fellow Latino-American poet and author.