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Ozge Samanci is a media artist, graphic novelist, and Associate Professor at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. In 2017, Ozge received the Berlin Prize, and I was the Holtzbrinck Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her autobiographical graphic novelDare to Disappoint(Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015) received international press attention and was reviewed inThe New York Times,The Guardian,Slate,New Republic,Paste Magazine, and theDaily Beast, among others.Dare to Disappointreceived the 2016 New York Book Show Award and the 2016 Middle East Book Award and has been translated into Korean, Dutch, Romanian, Italian, and Turkish. Ozge's illustrations have appeared inThe Wall Street Journal,Slate,The Huffington Post, andThe Rumpus, among other publications.