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Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Artificial: A Love Story and Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Longreads, Wired, The Verge, and many other places. She was a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Amy teaches monthly cartooning classes for the public via her Patreon.