The graphic memoir shows how histories, both global and within families, shape how we are formed and what we become.

Pulitzer-winning graphic memoir traces three generations of trauma, identity and survival across continents and ideologies.

West Marin native Tessa Hulls is behind “Feeding Ghosts,” her graphic memoir that recently won a Pulitzer Prize. (Photo by Hall Anderson) ...

After spending 10 years working on her first book, "Feeding Ghosts" — and winning, to her astonishment, a Pulitzer Prize — Tessa Hulls says she's never writing another book.

May 5—Tessa Hulls was hard at work Monday at the Legislative Lounge in the Capitol building in Juneau when her phone started a perpetual buzzing. Congratulatory calls and texts were pouring in ...

Hulls’s epic, elegantly etched graphic memoir debut tangles with trauma’s long tentacles as she follows three generations of her family from Mao’s China to Hong Kong in the 1960s and ...

Tessa Hulls’ debut memoir has been racking up accolades and awards since it came out in 2024. The book explores the effect of China’s traumatic history on her grandmother, her mother, and herself.

Seattle author Tessa Hulls, who confronted her family’s complex, continent-spanning history in her graphic novel “Feeding Ghosts,” has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for memoir or autobiography.

By Matt Dowell This 2025 Pulitzer finalist wrote her novel in a Capitol Hill coworking space. This 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner once made Volunteer Park her studio. Tessa Hulls is always on ...

West Marin native Tessa Hulls is behind “Feeding Ghosts,” her graphic memoir that recently won a Pulitzer Prize. (Photo by Hall Anderson) ...

Tessa Hulls still doesn’t fully understand why her family chose to move to a tiny town in West Marin. Of all the places, how would two immigrants born in cosmopolitan cities — her father in ...