Amy Kurzweil
About Amy
Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: a graphic memoir and Artificial: A Love Story. She was a Fall 2021 Berlin Prize fellow with The American Academy in Berlin and a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo and elsewhere. Her cartooning has been nominated for a Reuben award and an Ignatz Award.
Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Believer, The NYTBR, The LA Times, Longreads, Literary Hub, 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.
-Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2020/2021
-Shearing Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, 2019
-New Yorker cartoonist
-Regular contributor to The Believer Magazine ("Technofeelia" graphic essay series)
-Flying Couch: a graphic memoir named a New York Times "Editor's Choice" and a Kirkus "Best Memoir" of 2016
-Reuben Award nominee
-Artificial: A Love Story was named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, NPR and Kirkus and won The Living Now Book Award.
B.A., English (Creative Writing) - Stanford University
M.F.A., Creative Writing - The New School