Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir. Her writing, comics, and cartoons have also been published in The Believer, Longreads, Literary Hub, Wired, Catapult, and elsewhere. She's received fellowships from MacDowell and Djerassi; she was a 2019 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute and a Fall 2020 Berlin Prize fellow with the American Academy in Berlin. She's working on her second graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story. Amy has been teaching comics and writing for over a decade, previously at Parson School of Design and F.I.T. in Manhattan. She lives now in Central California. Find her on Patreon for monthly classes.