Tessa Hulls

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Tessa Hulls
Born1984 (age 40–41)
Area Cartoonist, Artist
Notable works
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, 2025
Eisner Award, 2025
tessahulls.com

Tessa Hulls (born 1984) [1] is an American graphic novelist, painter, journalist, illustrator, and writer. [2] She won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, [3] Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Graphic Memoir [4] for her book, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. [5] [6]

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Life

Hulls grew up in Point Reyes Station, Northern California. [7] She graduated from Reed College with an art degree and her senior thesis focused on aesthetics of community and rebellion. [8] She was a member of the Seattle CHOP protest group. [9]

Hulls is an active traveller, who has adapted some of her voyages into comic journals. [1] In 2023, she published her autobiographical graphic novel Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, about the troubled lives of her Chinese grandmother, mother and herself. [1]

She traveled in China with her mother. In 2024, she moved to Juneau, Alaska. [10]

She is the sister of Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls. [11]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tessa Hulls". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved Dec 19, 2025.
  2. ↑ Ito, Robert (2024-03-01). "A Writer's To-Do List: Learn History. Learn Chinese. Learn to Draw Comics". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  3. ↑ "Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book. It'll also be her last". CBC Books . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 September 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  4. ↑ Spratford |, Sam. "Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  5. ↑ "Alaska-based author and artist Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for memoir 'Feeding Ghosts'". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  6. ↑ Kitamura, Katie. "Shelf Awareness for Friday, March 21, 2025". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  7. ↑ Brooks, James (2025-05-06). "From Alaska Capitol's cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize". Alaska Beacon. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  8. ↑ "Reed College Art Students, Tessa Hulls".
  9. ↑ Vansynghel &, Margo; Flores, Agueda Pacheco; Edwards, Dorothy. "Meet the citizen journalists inside Seattle's CHOP | Cascade PBS". www.cascadepbs.org. Retrieved 2025-05-06.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ Sabbatini, Mark (2025-05-04). "Juneau author Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for graphic memoir 'Feeding Ghosts'". Juneau Empire. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  11. ↑ Dickinson, Boonsri (June 20, 2011). "Life360 turns your smartphone into a lifeline". CNET . A few months ago, Tessa Hulls ventured on a cross-country bike trip from San Diego to the East Coast.... A couple of days ago, her brother Chris Hulls was curious about his sister's whereabouts.
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