Amy Kurzweil

Cartoonist, Author

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two graphic memoirs: “Flying Couch” and “Artificial: A Love Story,” which was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus. She is the 2024 winner of the Overseas Press Club Cartoon Award for her comics with the Los Angeles Times, and she was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow with the American Academy in Berlin. Amy has also received fellowships from The Black Mountain Institute, Yaddo and MacDowell, and her work has been nominated for a Reuben Award and an Ignatz Award for “Technofeelia,” her four-part series with The Believer Magazine. Her writing, comics and cartoons have also been published in The Verge, The New York Times Book Review, WIRED and many other places. Amy has taught widely, in public and private school, in universities and online. Find her on Patreon to join her monthly cartoonist class.