Susan Troccolo is active as a community volunteer and writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her essays have appeared in VoiceCatcher, Open to Hope, Culinate, and the award winning anthology Aging: An Apprenticeship (Red Notebook Press 2017).
Troccolo’s collection The Beet Goes On: Essays on Friendship and Breaking New Ground (Five Peppers Publishing 2015) has been called whimsical and wise, “the perfect gift for anyone who needs an immediate dose of humor and life-wisdom.”
In 2019, The Common: A Modern Sense of Place, the prestigious literary journal of Amherst College published Troccolo’s account of studying the Divine Comedy in Rome, Italy entitled All I Have is What I Have Given Away. The long-form essay, which contains black & white photography by her husband, Patrick, was adapted from Troccolo’s 1992 documentary of the same subject.
Susan loves all things Italian, bluegrass guitar, and border collies. But try as she might–in her home vegetable garden–she still can’t grow beets.