Sergio Troncoso

Sergio Troncoso is the author of eight books: Nobody's Pilgrims, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust; and as editor, Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds and Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence.

For many years, Troncoso has taught at the Yale Writers' Workshop in New Haven, Connecticut. A past president of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has also served as a judge for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the New Letters Literary Awards in the Essay Category. His work has recently appeared in the Texas Highways, Houston Chronicle, New Letters, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly. Troncoso's literary papers are archived at The Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Troncoso graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received two graduate degrees in international relations and philosophy from Yale University. He won a Fulbright scholarship to Mexico and was inducted into the Hispanic Scholarship Fund's Alumni Hall of Fame and the Texas Institute of Letters. The El Paso City Council voted unanimously to rename the Ysleta public library branch as the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library.