George Michelsen Foy is the author of 14 published novels: the latest, The Last Green Light, in May of 2024 with Guernica Editions; other novels were published by Viking Penguin, Bantam Doubleday, University Press of New England (as GF Michelsen), Éditions Globophile (Paris), Bastei Lubbe (Germany); and 3 works of non-fiction (Scribner / Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan / Flatiron). His long-form non-fiction has been published in Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, etc.; fiction in Notre Dame Review, Ep;phany Journal, Washington Square Review, etc. He has worked as illustrator and editor (for the International Herald Tribune and the Cape Cod Register, among others); also as merchant marine officer, commercial cod-fisherman, lobsterman, construction worker and factory hand. A native of Cape Cod, he was educated at the London School of Economics and Bennington College's MFA program, teaches creative writing at New York University, lives in Barnstable County, is a recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction and other awards, and finds writers' biographies amusing.