Findlay, Ohio, March 1, 2002 — Writer and economist Sergio Troncoso will give a reading at The University of Findlay on Monday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Union, Multi-purpose Room.

Troncoso’s visit is sponsored by the Spanish Club and The Envoy and is the result of a friendship between him and Rosita Harper, assistant professor of English as an international language at UF.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Troncoso was born in Texas and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard University, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale, where he now teaches during the summer.

His work has appeared in Newsday, Hadassah Magazine, Other Voices, Blue Mesa Review and many other publications. His stories have been anthologized in New World: Young Latino Writers and City Wilds: Stories and Essays about Urban Nature.

In 1999, his book of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, won the Premio Aztlan for the best book of fiction by an emerging Chicano writer and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. He is at work on a novel that explores the different between being righteous and being evil.

The event is free and open to the public. He will also be available for book signing. For more information, call 419-434-4835.