A Poetry and Prose Reading with Heidi Seaborn and Sergio Troncoso (In-Person)

PEN/Hemingway-winning novelist Ben Fountain praised Sergio Troncoso’s most recent novel, NOBODY’S PILGRIMS: “In this superb novel, Sergio Troncoso gives us a fresh take not only on the great American road trip, but on the American Dream itself in all its glorious and increasingly fragile promise.” Luis Alberto Urrea called Troncoso’s latest book of short stories, A PECULIAR KIND OF IMMIGRANT’S SON, “a world-class collection.” Troncoso also edited NEPANTLA FAMILIAS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE ON FAMILIES IN BETWEEN WORLDS, which received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Among the numerous prizes Troncoso has won are the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, and the Gold Medal for Best Novel-Adventure or Drama from the International Latino Book Awards. He was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. A past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and a Fulbright scholar, Troncoso teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. His stories and essays have appeared in Pleiades, CNN Opinion, New Letters, Yale Review, Other Voices, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Texas Monthly.

Heidi Seaborn is the author of three books of poetry, tic tic tic, (September 2025), An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe, Give a Girl Chaos, and three chapbooks, Bite Marks, Once a Diva and Finding My Way Home. She’s won or been shortlisted for over sixty prizes, including winning of The Missouri Review Editors Prize in Poetry. Recent work in AGNI, Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Financial Times, Image, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, Terrain.org, The Slowdown and elsewhere. Heidi’s Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and holds degrees from Stanford and NYU. heidiseabornpoet.com