The Inside Story: Ivy, Edoardo, and Harrison in Conversation with Danielle Trussoni | WED. OCT. 30

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Join us on the main stage for an intimate conversation with our three international presenters and best-selling author, Danielle Trussoni. This discussion will be followed by an audience Q & A.

About Ivy Pochoda

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2024. These Women was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, The Edgar Award, the California Book Award, The Macavity Award, and the International Thriller Writers Award. Wonder Valley won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and France’s Le Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine. Visitation Street won the Prix Page America in France. Her books have been widely translated. Her first novel, The Art of Disappearing was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2009. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times & The Los Angeles Review of Books. With the late Kobe Bryant she is the author of the Epoca series for middle grade readers. She teaches creative writing at the Studio 526 Skid Row and is a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside Low Residency MFA Program in Palm Desert.

About Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini is an actor, writer, and celebrated narrator of audiobooks. For his work in narration Edoardo was profiled by The New York Times, which called him “The Voice of God…” His numerous audiobook credits range from classics by Dante and Dostoyevsky to modern day bestsellers from Amor Towles and Karl Ove Knausgaard. On screen, his acting credits include The Sopranos and the recent A Murder at the End of the World. He is also the co-author, with Jess Walter, of The Audible Original “The Angel of Rome.”

Ballerini started out hoping to be a screen actor, a great one. His father, Luigi Ballerini, is a renowned Italian poet, one of the most lauded of his generation. An academic who raised his son in New York, he has also been an interpreter of others, having provided the Italian translations for authors ranging from Melville to Vonnegut. In college, at Wesleyan, in Connecticut, Edoardo majored in English, the kind of student who recorded albums of T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas onto cassettes so he could walk around campus with his Walkman, hearing their voices in his ear. He won a fellowship to study Latin in Rome after graduation but, soon after arriving, started acting with a local theater troupe. When he returned to the States, he gave up his plans for graduate school and began auditioning.

About Harrison Ball

Harrison Ball is an actor, choreographer, dancer, and filmmaker. Mr. Ball was formally trained in classical ballet at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet (NYCB) where he danced as a principal dancer for 13 years. Mr. Ball originated roles in ballets choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Kyle Abraham, and many others as well as dancing a variety of principal roles by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Peter Martins.

Additionally, Mr. Ball has choreographed critically acclaimed ballets. His debut acting film was accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival where he costarred with Debbie Harry, Jemima Kirke, and Marc Gellar. Mr. Ball is developing numerous stage productions and is preparing for several future films.

About Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni is a New York Times and Internationally bestselling author of seven books. She has been the chair jurist of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and a book columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Her novels have been translated into over thirty languages. She has lived in Japan, England, Bulgaria, France, The United States and Mexico. She currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her family. To learn more visit danielletrussoni.com.