Matt Baca (He/Him)

Anna Baca

Matt Baca is an attorney and the executive director of Colorado Legal Services, Colorado's statewide legal aid program. Originally from Albuquerque, he has family roots in rural New Mexico. His short fiction has appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review and in Southwest Review, where it won that journal's McGinnis-Ritchie Award, and his humor writing has appeared on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among other places. He is a member of the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Book:

All These Deep Arroyos

A Novel
Fiction / Literature
Bloomsbury Publishing
January 2027
ISBN 9781639737758
Hardcover, 0 pages

"All These Deep Arroyos pulled me into the desert and then swept me away. What a gorgeous, consuming, and indelible novel. "-Rachel Khong “This story of two brothers, of the different choices they make and the different lives they lead, kept me turning the pages right to the end.”-Karen Joy Fowler Before he's sentenced to prison, Robin lives a hard, dried-out life in an adobe casita among the yuccas and cholla cactuses in the desierto alto, New Mexico's high desert. But he also knows tenderness and love because of his traditional abuelos who raise him. And because of Cristina, a brilliant, fiercely independent girl from the Laguna Pueblo who insists she will be a scientist. Who insists Robin will be someone too. With her. But just as Robin and Cristina start new lives in colleges far from home, they're ripped apart. Robin is arrested and sentenced to federal prison because he's fallen into one of his twin brother's schemes. And because someone has died. Now, seven years into Robin's prison sentence, as Cristina has found new love, someone is secretly trying to free Robin. Someone-Robin can't guess who-is working in the judge's chambers, risking everything for Robin and Cristina, even as the prosecutor and the judge become increasingly suspicious. All because once, in the desierto alto, Robin and Cristina saved this friend first. More/less