Sergio Troncoso
@SergioTroncoso
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Author of NOBODY'S PILGRIMS, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS, A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT’S SON, THE LAST TORTILLA. Si me picas te pico. https://t.co/KTIjq61Pxg.
New York, NY
Joined January 2009
So thrilled and stunned to announce that the Board of Judges selected me along with Tracy Daugherty, Molly Ivins, Stephen Graham Jones, Cormac McCarthy, Jan Seale, and Cynthia Leitich Smith as the 2024 inductees into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. 1/3
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Thank you @hvwriterscenter for inviting me for a reading with Heidi Seaborn. I loved talking about NOBODY’S PILGRIMS, my novel about three teenagers driving across the country in search of their American Dreams. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn meets No Country for Old Men.
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Join me for a reading with Heidi Seaborn, Sunday, Nov. 2, 4-5 PM, at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY. I'm excited to talk about writing and books at the historic train station along the Hudson River! https://t.co/MzDjKmTlD6
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What a great turnout for “The Immigrant Experience,” with Christina Chiu and Hirsh Sawhney, at Connecticut Literary Festival in Hartford! We had a lively reading and conversation with the audience; the day ended with Laura and me celebrating at Market Tavern in Litchfield.
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Join me this weekend at the Connecticut Literary Festival for our panel, "The Immigrant Experience: The Struggle to Become American," with Christina Chiu and Hirsh Sawhney. Saturday, Oct. 18, 3 PM, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., #hartford , #connecticut. https://t.co/1HrtyPkoCZ
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The literary contests from the Texas Institute of Letters are open for submissions! Please consider submitting your work for many different literary categories for Texas writers or writers writing about Texas subjects. Deadline, Friday, January 9, 2026. https://t.co/E087EH6mEZ
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Please join us for the 2025 Troncoso Reading Prizes at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library in El Paso, Texas! Encourage high school and middle school students to read! I can't wait to meet the winners in December. Follow the link to enter. https://t.co/zhMTwMCrSX
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Laura and I are having a great time celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary in Nova Scotia: Halifax, Lunenburg, Cheticamp, Cabot Trail, Ingonish, and other parts of Cape Breton Island!🍁🇨🇦
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Chicago Cubs win, 3-1! So much fun visiting Isaac and Rayna who live in Chicago. What a great Saturday to go to a baseball game and eat hot dogs and sing songs with 40,000 other fans! 😃#chicago #chicagocubs
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This is a book review I had never seen before of the book I edited, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS. Thank you, Josh Cook, for a thoughtful read and review. Texas A&M University Press tells me it's a bestseller! https://t.co/nbKlwjh52l
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Beautiful Sunday morning at Kent Falls! Laura and I hiked up the falls to the top. A great way to start the day. 🌲#kentconnecticut
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I had a great writing workshop at the Mark Twain House and Museum in #Hartford, #Connecticut. The students were engaged and ready to work. We’re following up our in-person workshop with Zoom discussions. Thank you, @themarktwainhouse and Omar Acevedo for the friendly welcome!
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Join us for a one-day #writing workshop with in-class exercises and craft talk on voice, with more reading materials and exercises shared before the workshop: at the Mark Twain House and Museum in #Hartford, #Connecticut, Tuesday, July 1, 5:00-7:30 PM. https://t.co/p9vmtQoTnu
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Highly recommended: One day workshop with my author Sergio Troncoso in the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT, 7/1 @SergioTroncoso @TwainHouse
Please join me for a one-day workshop at the Mark Twain House & Museum, Tuesday, July 1, 5-7:30 PM, in Hartford, CT. Thank you for helping me to spread the word to those in the Hartford area! https://t.co/p9vmtQprd2
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Please join me for a one-day workshop at the Mark Twain House & Museum, Tuesday, July 1, 5-7:30 PM, in Hartford, CT. Thank you for helping me to spread the word to those in the Hartford area! https://t.co/p9vmtQprd2
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What a terrific group of writers I had at the 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop-Intensive! They made my year! Cynthia Johnstone, Victoria Hunt, Lisa Ann Dulin, Bruce Parker, Bettina Meade, Pranjal Shirwaikar, Robin Harris. We got so much work done, and I’m proud of them. 😊
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Faculty at 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop and Faculty reading. Thank you to my colleagues (and friends): Jotham Burrello, Lisa Page, Kirsten Bakis, Molly Gaudry, Trey Ellis, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Mary Collins, Mishka Shubaly.
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Join me at the Troncoso Library in Ysleta on Thursday, May 15, 4:30 pm! It’s an Open House and I can’t wait to chat with the neighborhood and friends. #elpasotexas #elpasotx #ysleta
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The conversations I have with writers are always my favorite part of getting together with the Texas Institute of Letters, this time in Brownsville. (Elizabeth Crook, Octavio Quintanilla, Ruben Degollado, Chris Tomlinson.)Thank you for the camaraderie and inspiration. #texas
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This was the most powerful moment I’ve experienced in 40 years of journalism.
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The judge wept and others in the courtroom sobbed as a woman who lost her brother in the 2019 El Paso Walmart mass shooting hugged the gunman after her emotional impact statement.
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