Amy Kurzweil is a Boston-born writer of short stories and comics living in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in fiction from The New School (2013) and a BA in creative writing from Stanford University, where she was awarded the Mary Steinbeck Decker award for fiction (2009). She teaches writing and comics at Parsons The New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work has been published in
Hobart, Hot Street, Short Fast and Deadly, and forthcoming in
Blackbird. She has just completed a graphic memoir about three generations of women in her family, represented by Union Literary. You can read her comics, and learn more, at www.amykurzweil.com.
[Richard] How long should a Jew be dead before you name your child after him? My mother thumbs through The Big Book of Baby Names, recently dusted. Hunting for free supplies, I found the book boxed up, in the back-most … Continue reading →