George Rabasa


George Anthony Rabasa 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.
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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.

Partial bibliography

Novels

The Wonder Singer The Cleansing
  • ''Floating Kingdom''

Short stories

Glass Houses.

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