Emily Flake is a cartoonist, writer, comic, and educator. She is the recipient of the 2026 Thurber Award for Cartoon Art and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, where she will be in residence in Spring 2027, and was a Yaddo fellow in 2025. She is the author of several books, most recently Joke in a Box: How to Write and Draw Jokes and the illustrator of All Toddlers are Scorpios. She is also the founder and operator of the St. Nell’s Humor Writing Residency in Williamsport, PA. She makes her home in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and disquietingly large cat.
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