Tessa Hulls
Tessa Hulls is an American graphic novelist, painter, journalist, illustrator, and writer. She won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Pulitzer Prize for [Memoir or Autobiography|Memoir or Autobiography], Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, National Books Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and a Will Eisner [Comic Industry Award] for Best Graphic Memoir for her book, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir.
Life
Hulls grew up in Point Reyes Station, Northern California. She graduated from Reed College with an art degree and her senior thesis focused on aesthetics of community and rebellion. She was a member of the Seattle CHOP protest group.Hulls is an active traveller, who has adapted some of her voyages into comic journals. In 2023, she published her autobiographical graphic novel Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir, about the troubled lives of her Chinese grandmother, mother and herself.
She traveled in China with her mother. In 2024, she moved to Juneau, Alaska.
She is the sister of Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls.