Amy Kurzweil

About Amy

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 where she'll be working on her second graphic memoir, Artificial: a love story. She's was a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Djerassi and elsewhere. Her cartooning has been nominated for a Reuben award.

Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Believer, Longreads, Literary Hub, Wired, Catapult, and many other places. Kurzweil has taught at Parsons the New School for Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, and in New York City Public Schools.

I think all creative and analytic work stems from precise observations. My workshops are never overly critical; instead I guide my students to appreciate accomplished work and assess their own work through sharpening their attention to detail.