H. G. Carrillo is the author of Loosing My Espanish, a novel, published by Pantheon Books and in paperback by Anchor Books. His short stories and essays have appeared in Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, Ninth Letter, and other journals and publications. Carrillo died in 2020.

"When Carrillo constructs a Cuba that exists only in words, he and his fictive island coexist in what Henry James called 'a rare state of the imagination.' For a young novelist, that's a pretty good place to be." — Washington Post Book World