Eloy Urroz is the author of the novels Las leyes que el amor elige (1993), Las rémoras (1996), Herir tu fiera carne (1997), Las almas abatidas (2000), Un siglo tras de mí (2004), Fricción (2008), La familia interrumpida (2011), and Nudo de alacranes (2019). He is also co-author of Tres bosquejos del mal (1994) and Crack. Instrucciones de uso (2004).

He has written several essays, including Las formas de la inteligencia amorosa: D. H. Lawrence y James Joyce (1999), La silenciosa herejía: forma y contrautopía en las novelas de Jorge Volpi (2000), Siete ensayos capitales (2004), and Êthos, forma, deseo entre España y México (2007).

Urroz has also published poetry collections such as Ver de viento (1988), Sobre cómo apresar la vida de las estrellas (1989), Yo soy ella (1998), Poemas en exhibición (2003), and Yer blues (2011), as well as the political chronicle El águila, la serpiente y el tucán (2000).

Several of his novels have been translated into English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. He is currently a professor of Latin American literature at The Citadel College in South Carolina.