February 18, 2019
Keren Katz (CCS 2018-19 Fellow) is a Tel Aviv–based comics artist, illustrator, and the non fictitious half of The Katz Sisters Duo. She graduated from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. She has contributed stories to anthologies published by Fantagraphics, Retrofit/Big Planet Comics, Locust Moon Comics, Smoke Signal, The Brooklyn Rail, Ink Brick, Rough House Comics and more, as well as self-published and collected comic books all year round.
Keren practices performative, interactive, and collaborative storytelling marathons in odd locations, and is part of The Humdrum Comics Collective and Pathos Mathos Company. Her debut graphic novel, titled The Academic Hour (Secret Acres, 2017), was awarded the Cartoonist Studio Prize and nominated for an Ignatz.
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