Amy Kurzweil is a New York­er car­toon­ist and the author of Fly­ing Couch: A Graph­ic Mem­oir. She was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fel­low with the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my in Berlin, a 2019 Shear­ing Fel­low with the Black Moun­tain Insti­tute, and has received fel­low­ships from Mac­Dow­ell, Djeras­si, and elsewhere.

She 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, Lon­greads, Lit­er­ary Hub, WIRED and many oth­er places. Kurzweil has taught wide­ly for over a decade. See her web­site (amykurzweil​.com) to take a class with her.