Biographical Info

Tessa Hulls is an artist, writer, and adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into the backcountry or a research library. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, Adventure Journal, and others, and she received the 2021 Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. Her debut graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, traces three generations of women in her family against a backdrop of Chinese history and diaspora to explore the complex ways that mothers and daughters both damage and save one another. Feeding Ghosts was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in nonfiction, and is currently a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.