Background
Trussoni was born in Louisiana Crosse, Wisconsin.
Trussoni was born in Louisiana Crosse, Wisconsin.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison summa cum laude with a Bachelor in History and English in 1996 and from the Iowa Writers" Workshop, where she received an Master of Fine Arts in Fiction in 2002.
Her work includes four books: Falling Through the Earth (2006). Angelology (2010), Angelopolis (2012) and a forthcoming memoir The Fortress (2016). In addition to being published in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and Tin House, her writings have been widely anthologized.
She has lived for extended periods in Japan, Bulgaria, England and France.
Trussoni currently lives in New York City. She lived in France from 2009-2012 and her forthcoming memoir, The Magic Castle, focuses on this period in her life.
The couple was featured in Season 2 of This American Life (television). They divorced in 2012.
She has two children.
New York Times: Sunday Book Review, Cracked, Helene Wecker, May 03, 2013 National Public Radio, Angelology: A Cross-Bred Monster Of A Mystery, Jane Ciabattari, March 11, 2010 TIME, Angelology: Wings of Desire, Lev Grossman, March 15, 2010 New York Times: Sunday Book Review, Fallen Angels, Susann Cokal, March 3, 2010 New York Times: Books, The War at Home, Kathryn Harrison, March 12, 2006 United States of America Today, "Angelology": A heaven-sent supernatural thrill ride, Carol Memmott, March 12, 2010 ELLE Book Release: Angelology, Natasha Clark, March 12, 2010.
Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir, which dealt with her efforts to understand her father and his experiences as a tunnel rat in the War in Vietnam, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of 2006.Falling Through the Earth was recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award for April 2006 and was chosen as a Book Sense Pick for March 2006.
