George Foy

George Foy is the author of eleven novels and one nonfiction book. His most recent novel, The Art and Practice of Explosion, won honorary mention in Foreword's Best Novel of the Year competition, and his novel Shift was finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award in literary science fiction. A recipient of an NEA fellowship, he has written for Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Men's Journal, and has worked as a merchant marine officer, magazine editor, commercial fisherman, and chief cream-pastry-transporter in a sweets factory.