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George Michelsen Foy is the author of Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human and Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence, and several critically acclaimed novels. He was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction, and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, Harper’s, the New York Times, and Men’s Journal, among others. A former commercial fisherman, and a watch-keeping officer on British tramp coasters, he holds a coastal captain’s license from the US Coast Guard. Foy teaches creative writing at New York University, and with his family divides his time between coastal Massachusetts and New York.