Sergio Troncoso: Appearances — Sergio Troncoso: Writer

Sergio Troncoso, Fiction Workshop, Yale Writers' Workshop, 2026.

Sergio Troncoso as Grand Marshal of Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros parade in Ysleta, Texas on April 25, 2026.

Lily Limon, Norma Martinez, and Sergio Troncoso at Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros festivities in Ysleta, Texas on April 25, 2026.

Sergio Troncoso in El Paso, Texas, December 2025.

Sergio Troncoso at Troncoso Branch Library in El Paso, Texas to award Troncoso Reading Prizes in December 2025.

Heidi Seaborn and Sergio Troncoso at Hudson Valley Writers' Center in Sleepy Hollow, NY, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso, Christina Chiu, Hirsch Sawhney, Panel: The Immigrant Experience, Connecticut Literary Festival, Hartford, CT, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso teaching a writing workshop at Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT, July 1, 2025.

Yale Writers' Workshop with Sergio Troncoso, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso and Elizabeth Crook at annual banquet, Texas Institute of Letters, Brownsville, TX, April 26, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso and Octavio Quintanilla at annual banquet, Texas Institute of Letters, Brownsville, TX, April 26, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso with members of Harvard/Radcliffe RAZA, March 28, 2025.

Sergio Troncoso in Harvard Yard, March 28, 2025.

Winners of 2024 Troncoso Reading Prizes, Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, El Paso, TX, December 19, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso giving a lecture at Magoffin Historic Home in El Paso, TX, December 18, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso, Texas Literary Hall of Fame, Texas Christian University, October 29, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Stephen Graham Jones, Texas Literary Hall of Fame, 2024.

Texas Literary Hall of Fame inductees, Tracy Daugherty, Molly Ivins, Stephen Graham Jones, Cormac McCarthy, Jan Seale, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Sergio Troncoso, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso Day in El Paso County, October 28, 2024.

El Paso County Commissioners declaring Sergio Troncoso Day in El Paso County on October 28, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso at Housatonic Community College, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso on Front Page of El Paso Times for his induction into Texas Literary Hall of Fame, September 29, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso talking with Christianne Meneses Jacobs at LatinoBookChat.com.

Sergio Troncoso with workshop students at Yale Writers' Workshop, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso with Rigoberto Gonzalez at AWP, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso with Joy Castro at AWP, 2024.

Sergio Troncoso visiting with Princeton Latino Alumni Book Club in 2024.

Sergio Troncoso talking with Charles Lane at Bethesda Writer's Center in 2023.

Sergio Troncoso talking to students at Concord Academy in Concord, MA, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso at Concord Academy in 2023.

Sergio Troncoso at Curious Cat Book Shop in Winsted, CT, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso with Stacy Whitman, owner of Curious Cat Book Shop, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso visiting Museum of Literature in Dublin, Ireland, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso at Westland Row Pub in Dublin, Ireland, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso in conversation with Diego Mendoza-Moyers of El Paso Matters, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library for El Paso Matters Book Club, 2023.

Diego Mendoza-Moyers of El Paso Matters talking with Sergio Troncoso, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso with writing workshop students at Yale Writers' Workshop, 2023.

Ruben Degollado, Angie Cruz, and Sergio Troncoso, Tucson Book Festival, 2023.

Sergio Troncoso at Texas Book Festival in 2022.

Silas House, Hillery Hugg, and Sergio Troncoso at Texas Book Festival in 2022.

Dr. Toni Munoz-Hunt and Sergio Troncoso at University of Texas at Dallas for Dia de los Muertos, 2022.

Don Tate and Sergio Troncoso at BookPeople in Austin, TX, 2022.

Texas Monthly feature article on Sergio Troncoso, August 2022.

Sergio Troncoso at Yale Writers' Workshop, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso with students at Yale Writers' Workshop, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso with Larry Williams at Book Party for Nobody's Pilgrims, New York, NY, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso at House of Books, Kent, CT, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso with Benjamin Rybeck at House of Books, Kent, CT, 2022.

El Dia cover, Philadelphia, PA, May 25-June 1, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso, Amanda Ward, Sarah Bird, Steve Davis, San Antonio Book Festival, 2022.

John Phillip Santos, Sergio Troncoso, Octavio Quintanilla, San Antonio Book Festival, 2022.

Benjamin Alire Saenz and Sergio Troncoso, Annual Banquet, Texas Institute of Letters, El Paso, TX, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso, Diana Lopez, David Bowles, Carmen Tafolla, Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2022.

Edward Vidaurre and Sergio Troncoso, Annual Meeting, Texas Institute of Letters, El Paso, TX, 2022.

Sergio Troncoso, Christina Soontornvat, Marisol Cortez, David Meischen, Texas Book Festival, 2021.

Sergio Troncoso, Okey Ndibe, Roya Hakakian, Connecticut Literary Festival, Hartford, CT, 2021.

Sergio Troncoso, Steve Davis, Kip Stratton, Wes Ferguson, Austin, TX, 2021.

Sergio Troncoso and Pati Jinich at La Tapatia in Ysleta, TX, 2021.

Sergio Troncoso talking with Pati Jinich about Nepantla Familias at La Tapatia in Ysleta, TX, 2021.

Sergio Troncoso at Blair Academy in New Jersey, Society of Skeptics Lecture, 2020.

M.G. Lord and Sergio Troncoso at 1888 Cultural Center in Orange, CA, 2020.

Sergio Troncoso at Michael Sedano's Floricanto Book Club, Pasadena, CA, 2020.

Sergio Troncoso, Alfredo Corchado, Benjamin Alire Saenz at Literarity Book Shop in El Paso, TX, 2019.

Winners of Troncoso Reading Prizes, Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso, Margaret Cohen, Julia Cohen at KramerBooks, Washington, D.C., 2019.

Sergio Troncoso at BookPeople in Austin, TX, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso reading at BookPeople in Austin, TX, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso at Palo Alto College, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso with students at Palo Alto College, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso with E.C. Osondu, Kamila Shamsie, Xu Xi, Jess Row, Brattleboro, VT, 2019.

Christina Chiu and Sergio Troncoso at The Strand Book Store, New York, NY, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso reading at Literarity Book Shop in El Paso, TX, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso, Nicolas Kanellos, Alidis Vicente at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, 2019.

Sergio Troncoso and Elizabeth Crook at the Texas Book Festival, 2018.

Cliff Hudder, Sergio Troncoso, Dave Parsons at Lone Star College, The Woodlands, TX, 2018.

Sergio Troncoso at Kent Hollow Festival, South Kent, CT, 2018.

Sandra Cisneros and Sergio Troncoso at Annual Meeting of Texas Institute of Letters, San Antonio, TX, 2018.

Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Sergio Troncoso, Sasha Pimentel, Daniel Chacon, San Antonio, TX, 2018.

Winners of Troncoso Reading Prizes at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2017.

Winner of Troncoso Reading Prize, Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2018.

Sergio Troncoso with Benjamin Alire Saenz at Annual Banquet of Texas Institute of Letters, El Paso, TX, 2017.

Sergio Troncoso with students of Horizon High School, Horizon, TX, 2017.

Winners of Troncoso Reading Prizes at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2016.

Sergio Troncoso, Lisa Page, Claudia Rankine, Porochista Khakpour at Yale Writers' Conference, 2016.

Julie Iromuanya, Luis Alberto Urrea, James Hannaham, Elizabeth Tallent, Viet Thanh Nguyen, PEN/Faulkner Award, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2016.

Elizabeth Tallent and Sergio Troncoso, PEN/Faulkner Award, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2016.

Sergio Troncoso and Viet Thanh Nguyen at PEN/Faulkner Award, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2016.

Luis Alberto Urrea and Sergio Troncoso at PEN/Faulkner Award, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2016.

Winners of Troncoso Reading Prizes at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2015.

Official renaming of Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, El Paso, TX, 2015.

Sergio Troncoso talking about importance of reading and public libraries at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2015.

Sergio Troncoso and Daniel Fernandez at Lucero Mexican Studies Institute's Annual Conference, City University of New York, 2015.

Sergio Troncoso on a video call with students at Northbrook High School, Houston, TX, 2015.

Sergio Troncoso at Center for Mexican American Studies at University of Houston, Houston, TX, 2015.

Sergio Troncoso at The Americas Society in New York, NY, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso with Kathleen Bombach's class at El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, 2014.

Benjamin Alire Saenz, Sergio Troncoso, Daniel Chacon at KTEP's "Words on a Wire" in El Paso, TX, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso with fourth graders at library of Cadwallader Elementary School, El Paso, TX, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso with students at Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence, MA, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso and El Paso City Council after unanimous vote to rename Ysleta public library as Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 2014.

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Sergio Troncoso at La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso at Southwest Book Awards, Border Regional Library Association, El Paso, TX, 2014.

Sergio Troncoso at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico, 2013.

Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Erasmo Guerra, Sergio Troncoso at La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso at Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso with teachers at Northern Essex Community College, Lawrence, MA, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso teaching Fiction Workshop at Yale Writers' Conference, New Haven, CT, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso reading at Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso teaching at Puente program at El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso with students from Puente program at El Paso Community College, TV-program: Chicana Chicano Voices, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso visiting Ysleta Middle School in El Paso, TX, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso talking at Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso answering questions at Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT, 2013.

Sergio Troncoso at La Casa Azul Bookstore in El Barrio, New York, NY, 2012.

Aurora Anaya-Cerda and Sergio Troncoso at La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso reading from a banned book in Arizona, Luis Urrea's The Devil's Highway, La Casa Azul Bookstore, New York, NY, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, TX, 2012.

Pat Mora and Sergio Troncoso at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso, Norma E. Cantu, Carmen Tafolla at Texas Institute of Letters, San Antonio, TX, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso answering questions from audience at The Yale Bookstore, New Haven, CT, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso at The Yale Bookstore, New Haven, CT, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso at Kent Memorial Library, Kent, CT, 2012.

Sergio Troncoso signing books at El Paso International Airport, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso at University of Texas at El Paso, 2011.

Aaron Michael Morales and Sergio Troncoso at University of Texas at El Paso, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso at Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso at St. Francis College, Brooklyn Book Festival, 2011.

Carlos Hernandez, Sergio Troncoso, Richie Narvaez at The Mysterious Bookshop, New York, NY, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso at Guild Literary Complex and University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso talking to students at Santiago High School, Garden Grove, CA, 2011.

Sergio Troncoso signing books at Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 2010.

Sergio Troncoso at Alumni Hall of Fame induction of Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Washington, D.C., 2003.

2026

February 12, 2026, 2:00 PM---Western Connecticut State University, Haas Library, Danbury, CT.

February 26, 2026---Ramaz Upper School, 60 East 78th Street, New York, NY.

March 23-24, 2026---North High School and Jennings Community Learning Center, Akron, OH.

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April 17-18, 2026---Texas Institute of Letters, Annual Conference and Banquet, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

April 25, 2026---El día de los niños/El día de los libros, Sergio Troncoso Branch Library, 9321 Alameda Avenue, El Paso, TX.

"Sergio fosters one of the best learning environments I have ever been a part of. He teaches a thoughtful, rigorous workshop that will leave you a better writer and person. Though the work is intense, Sergio expects nothing from you that he does not expect of himself, and he never makes you feel like you can’t do it. He believes in you in a way that makes you want to prove him right, which in my experience, led me to surprise myself. I exited Sergio’s workshop a stronger writer than I thought possible after just a week. I’ve come away with tools I can continue to apply to my writing, and connections I will continue to nurture, thanks to Sergio’s kindness and unparalleled dedication."

—True Walker, Yale Writers’ Workshop, 2026
"To say that Sergio goes above and beyond would be an understatement. He brings the full weight of his experience, his craft, and his heart into everything he teaches. He will challenge the way you think, the way you write, the way you see yourself as a writer, and he will do it not because it's his job, but because he genuinely wants to see you succeed. I had the opportunity to be part of his workshop at Yale. It is an extraordinary place, with world-class resources, brilliant minds, and an institution built on centuries of excellence. And yet, when I look back on everything this experience gave me, what I remember most is Sergio's mentorship. He is generous with his time, thoughtful in his feedback, and deeply invested in his students. He will spoil you, not with praise, but with the kind of guidance you'll spend years trying to find again. For me, he was the most valuable part of my time at Yale. Not every student gets a Sergio. If you do, show up. Do the work. And never take for granted what it means to be cared for by someone who gives nothing less than his absolute best."

—Richa Agarwal, Yale Writers’ Workshop, 2026
“Taking Sergio’s workshop is one of the best things you can do for yourself as a writer. If you are willing and able to put in the rigorous work that he expects of his students and of himself, his workshop, do not miss the opportunity to sign up. His workshops are designed with a single-minded focus of helping his students traverse unexplored paths and challenge their minds to become stronger writers. His writing exercises and reading assignments help you build your craft and bring clarity to your writing. These exercises will help you comb through your work like an editor. Sergio’s exercises and materials will change the way you look at writing and reading. He is one of the most dedicated instructors you will ever come across. Behind all the instruction and exercises you will find a man that leads his students with kindness, humility, and compassion. Sergio inspires you to do better.”

—Pranjal Shirwaikar, Yale Writers’ Workshop, 2025
“Learning from Sergio is like rafting the Colorado river. As the guide, he has a well-crafted plan. The journey is challenging, stimulating, fast-paced. He’s going to push you, possibly beyond what you’re used to, but it will be a beautiful ride and you’ll come out of the adventure a stronger, sharper, more capable writer than you ever thought possible. His materials are relevant, the exercises are very practical, and the discussions are skillfully designed to challenge how you approach and think about writing. But perhaps most impressive, is Sergio’s dedication to his students. It is on a level I have never experienced. He’s there, both feet in, giving 110% of his time, effort, knowledge and passion to his students. It’s yours for the taking. If you’re willing to do the work –and he will ask that of you– this is an opportunity you do not want to miss. Beyond the success, beyond the accolades, beyond all the amazing achievements, lies a truly sincere, kind and passionate man who is doing all of this for the right reasons.”

Cynthia Johnstone, Yale Writers’ Workshop, 2024
“Sergio is an extremely dedicated teacher determined to give everything he can to the class and lead them to bringing all they’ve got as well. His class covers the workshopping of current works, the art of critique, prompts for writing new work, craft discussions, and writing practice/writing life discussions. I’ve been in classes where the instructor is dedicated to one or maybe two of these facets, but Sergio gives his students unparalleled focus in all of these areas that they can take with them, and continue to get value from, long after the workshop is done.”

—Al Kratz, Yale Writers’ Workshop, 2023