Sergio Troncoso is an author of short stories, essays and novels including The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (1999), The Nature of Truth (2003) and From This Wicked Patch of Dust (2011). His latest collection of short stories is A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son in which he explores the diaspora of Latinos from the border to the big cities and delves stylistically into different literary notions of time.