Tessa Hulls (born 1984 ) is an American graphic novelist, painter, journalist, illustrator, and writer. 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".
Life.
Hulls grew up in Northern California. She graduated from Reed College with an art degree and her senior these 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-American grandmother, mother and herself. 
She traveled in China with her mother. In 2024, she moved to Juneau, Alaska.