Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni was born in La Crosse, WI. After attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she went on to do a MFA in fiction writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow and Callen Scholar. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, Glamour, The Telegraph Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Her first book, Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir, published by Henry Holt in March 2006, was recipient of the 2006 Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award and was chosen to be part of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program.