Keren Katz is an Israeli-born cartoonist, writer, and the non-fictitious half of The Katz Sisters Duo. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts’s MFA Illustration Program. She is the author of the Academic Hour (Secret Acres), nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Her illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Brooklyn Rail, Ink Brick and Time Out and her short stories have been published by NOW, Locust Moon Comics and the Graphic Canon of Children's Literature: The World's Greatest Kids' Lit as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press). Keren Katz lectures regularly in Israel and in Europe. In the US, she has presented at the Parsons School of Design, the New School, the School of Visual Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania. Katz is a Center for Cartoon Studies fellow, and recipient of the SVA Alumni Society 2013 Micro-Grant, the Sequential Artists Workshop’s 2014 Micro Grant, the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art’s 2015 Silver Medal and Award of Excellence, the 2018 Slate Book Review and the Center for Cartoon Studies sixth annual Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic (The Academic Hour) and the Cartoon Crossroad Columbus Emerging Talent Prize.
