Join local author, George Michelsen Foy, for a cup of coffee as he discusses his latest novel The Last Green Light.  Books will be available for purchase at the event.

George Michelsen Foy is the author of thirteen novels. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Epiphany Journal, Washington Square Review, Monkey Bicycle, Apeiron, Notre Dame Review, American Literary Review, and other journals; and his long-form non-fiction has been published in Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, and Slate. Of his novel To Sleep with Ghosts (Bantam / Doubleday), Nobel prize-winner Doris Lessing wrote, “[Foy is] a storyteller who, like Conrad, can compress into a tale you can’t put down all the complexities of a time and place.” His non-fiction books include Run the Storm (Scribner / Simon & Schuster, 2018) and Finding North: How navigation makes us human (Flatiron / Macmillan, 2016). GM Foy was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, and has won a Joe Gouveia Poetry Prize as well as awards in Epiphany Journal's, Foreword 's, Fiction Factory's and Cutthroat Journal's short-story contests. Foy lives in southeastern New England and Brooklyn and teaches writing at NYU. At various times in a checkered career he was smuggled into Afghanistan with a rebel patrol and witnessed bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Central Africa; he also worked as a factory-hand, agricultural laborer, commercial fisherman, watchkeeping officer on British tramp freighters, and as chief cream-pastry transporter for a cakes factory in West London.