Tessa Hulls
American writer and illustrator
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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,[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]
Eisner Award, 2025
| Tessa Hulls | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1984 (age 41–42) |
| Area | Cartoonist, Artist |
Notable works | Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography, 2025 Eisner Award, 2025 |
| tessahulls | |
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
- Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir. Picador. 2023. ISBN 978-0-3746-0165-2.