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, and National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for her book, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. [4] [5]
Hulls grew up in Point Reyes Station, Northern California. [6] She graduated from Reed College with an art degree and her senior thesis focused on aesthetics of community and rebellion. [7] She was a member of the Seattle CHOP protest group. [8]
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. [9]
She is the sister of Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls.