Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and the novels The Nature of Truth and From This Wicked Patch of Dust. From This Wicked Patch of Dust was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Books of 2012, and the novel also won the Southwest Book Award. Crossing Borders: Personal Essays won the Bronze Award for Essays from ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards. The son of Mexican immigrants, Troncoso graduated from Harvard College, and studied international relations and philosophy at 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. Troncoso teaches writing workshops at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and is a resident faculty member of the Yale Writers' Conference.

Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence (Arte Publico Press, 2013), Crossing Borders: Personal Essays (Arte Publico Press, 2011), From This Wicked Patch of Dust (University of Arizona Press, 2011), The Nature of Truth: A Novel (Northwestern University Press, 2003), The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press, 1999)

Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays (Pearson Longman, 2013), Writing for Life: Sentences and Paragraphs (Pearson Longman, 2013), Nuestra Aparente Rendicion (Grijalbo - Random House Mondadori, 2011), You Don't Have A Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens (Arte Publico Press, 2011), Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2010), Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Publico Press, 2009), Literary El Paso (Texas Christian University Press, 2009), Hecho En Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2006), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson Longman, 2006), Once Upon A Cuento (Curbstone Press, 2003), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press, 2002), New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell, 1997)