George Rabasa

George Anthony Rabasa (born December 29, 1941) is an American writer and author of four novels and a short story collection. Rabasa has received such honors as The Loft Career Initiative Grant, The Writer's Voice Capricorn Award, and two Minnesota Book Awards.

Background
Rabasa was born December 29, 1941, in Biddeford, Maine, to Catalan refugees. He was raised in Mexico City.

He currently lives in the state of Minnesota.

Novels

 * The Wonder Singer (Unbridled Books, 2008)
 * The Cleansing (The Permanent Press, 2006)
 * Floating Kingdom (Coffee House Press, 1997)

Short stories

 * Glass Houses (Coffee House Press, 1996).

Anthologies

 * “Family Lines”, A Ghost at Heart's Edge, North Atlantic Books, 1999.
 * “Jimmy Pearl's Blue Oyster”, 26 Minnesota Writers, Nodin Press, 1995.

Journals

 * “Yolanda by Day”, American Literary Review, 2003.
 * “Fallen Coconuts and Dead Fish”, Green Hills, 2003.
 * “Ask Señor Totol”, Hayden’s Ferry Review, 2002–2003.
 * “Hay Soos Saves”, North Dakota Quarterly, 2002.
 * “For the Solitary Soul”, South Carolina Review, 2001.
 * “Three Incidents in the Early Life of El Perro”, Atlanta Review, 2001.
 * “The Beautiful Wife”, Glimmer Train Stories, 1995.

Awards

 * The Loft Literary Center Career Initiative Grant, 2008
 * A BookSense Notable Book Selection, The Cleansing, 2006
 * Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, 2001
 * Minnesota Book Award for Novel, Floating Kingdom, 1998
 * Minnesota Book Award for Short Fiction, Glass Houses, 1997
 * The Writers Voice Capricorn Award, Excellence in Fiction, 1992