Sergio Troncoso is the author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, which won the Premio Aztlan and the Southwest Book Award, and The Nature of Truth: A Novel, a story about a Yale research student who discovers that his boss, a renowned professor, hides a Nazi past.

Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (W.W. Norton and Company), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Newsday, The El Paso Times, Encyclopedia Latina, Pembroke Magazine, Other Voices, and many other magazines and literary reviews.

Sergio 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. He is a member of PEN.

The first three chapters of The Nature of Truth, four of Troncoso's stories, book reviews, video, radio and print interviews, and discussion questions for his books are posted under Links.