Özge Samancı is a Turkish-American media artist, graphic novelist, and professor at the School of Communication at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She studied mathematics at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul and earned her doctorate in digital media from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her autobiographical graphic novel »Dare to Disappoint« (2015) received the Middle East Book Award. Her graphic novel »Evil Eyes Sea« (2024) was named one of the best graphic novels of the year by »The Guardian«. In 2017, she received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. Her illustrations have appeared in »The New Yorker«, »The Wall Street Journal«, and »Slate«. Özge Samancı lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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