Since retiring from teaching in 2014, Carmen Baca has built a phenomenal new career as a writer of Northern New Mexico regional fiction and nonfiction. Her storytelling style combines English and the regional Spanish dialect. Her debut novel, El Hermano, was published in April 2017 and was a finalist in the NM-AZ book awards program in 2018. Her third book, Cuentos del Cañón, received first place for short story fiction anthology in 2020 from the same program. To date, she has published six books and over 60 short works in literary journals, e-zines, and anthologies.