Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil (born October 23, 1986) is an American cartoonist and writer. In 2016, she published the graphic memoir Flying Couch. Her second graphic novel, Artificial: A Love Story was released in 2023. She draws cartoons for The New Yorker.

Life and career

Kurzweil was born in Boston in 1986. Her mother, Sonya, is a psychotherapist, and her father is the futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil. She graduated from Stanford University in 2009 and earned a master's degree in creative writing from the New School in New York City in 2013. She had multiple teaching jobs in the city, including dance at public schools and English at the Fashion Institute of Technology. An early cartooning influence was the work of Alison Bechdel. The project began as Kurzweil's (non-cartoon) senior thesis at Stanford, and she continued to research, write, and eventually illustrate it over eight years. Reviews of the book were largely positive.

Kurzweil's cartoons regularly appear in The New Yorker and other outlets.