George Rabasa

George 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. In 1964 he earned a B.A. from the University of the Americas, Mexico D.F./Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, with a double major in English literature and Journalism.

Partial bibliography

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).

Selected by A.M. Homes for the Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction

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