Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir. She is a Fall 2021 Berlin Prize fellow with the American Academy in Berlin, and a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Believer Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Longreads, Literary Hub, Wired, Catapult, and elsewhere, and address the confluence of art, futurism and technology. Kurzweil has received fellowships from MacDowell and Djerassi, and has been teaching comics and writing for over a decade, previously at Parson School of Design and F.I.T. in Manhattan.