George Foy

G. F. Michelsen, a prolific novelist and journalist, has taught writing at NYU and Hunter College. He has also worked as a seaman and officer on coastal freighters in northern Europe; commanded fishing boats out of Falmouth, Chatham, and Sandwich, Massachusetts; and performed numerous blue-collar jobs. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction, Michelsen is the author of To Sleep With Ghosts: A Novel of Africa (1992).