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 have appeared in Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, Ninth Letter, Slice and other journals and publications.  Carrillo lives in Washington, DC, where he is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at The George Washington University.  He is currently at work on a novel.