Tessa Hulls

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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, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for her book, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. [3] [4]

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Life

Hulls grew up in Northern California. [5] She graduated from Reed College with an art degree and her senior these focused on aesthetics of community and rebellion. [6] She was a member of the Seattle CHOP protest group. [7]

Hulls is an active traveller, who has adapted some of her voyages into comic journals. [8] In 2023, she published her autobiographical graphic novel Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, about the troubled lives of her Chinese grandmother, mother and herself. [9]

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

She is the sister of entrepreneur Chris Hulls.

Works

References

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