George Rabasa

I was born in Maine and raised in Mexico. I lived in Mexico City on and off for several years until the fates conspired to drop me in exotic Minnesota, where I have lived since 1981.

My new novel, The Wonder Singer, is due out in September by Unbridled Books.

My collection of short stories, Glass Houses (Coffee House Press), received The Writer’s Voice Capricorn Award for Excellence in Fiction and the Minnesota Book Award for Short Stories in 1997. My novel, Floating Kingdom (Coffee House Press), was awarded the 1998 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction.

My most recent novel, The Cleansing, was named a BookSense Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association.

My short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including StoryQuarterly, Other Voices, Glimmer Train Stories, South Carolina Review, Harper’s Ferry, The Maguffin, North Dakota Quarterly, Atlanta Review, and the anthologies ,The Ghost at Heart’s Edge, Stiller’s Pond, and 26 Minnesota Writers.

My writing encompasses a variety of worlds--from the changing urban landscape of the Upper Midwest to the shifting realities of the Rio Grande border to the first sparks of World War II in 1930s Spain. I have written about the mom of a serial killer, a legendary opera diva, the childhood friend of a Latin American dictator, a boy that turns into a frog, and many lovers, crooks, adulterers, slobs and saints.