Alaska-based author and artist Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’

Alaska-based author and artist Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’

Hulls, who recently moved to Juneau, was working in the Capitol Legislative Lounge preparing the daily specials when she heard the news.

From Alaska Capitol’s cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize

Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Feeding Ghosts," is seen at the window of the Legislative Lounge, where she works seasonally, on Monday, May 5, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize. Her book, “Feeding Ghosts,” is a nonfiction graphic novel that documents three generations of women in her family, starting with her grandmother…

Tessa Hulls wins the Pulitzer for graphic novel Feeding Ghosts - Graphic Policy

The post Tessa Hulls wins the Pulitzer for graphic novel Feeding Ghosts appeared first on Graphic Policy. The Pulitzer has a few ways to win for comic creators/cartoonists and most would think of political cartoons when thinking “comics” and that award. On Monday it was announced that Tessa Hulls had won a 2025 Pulitzer in “Memoir or Autobiography” for Feeding Ghosts, A Graphic Memoir, the second original graphic novel to win one. Art Spiegelma…

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From Alaska Capitol’s cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize - The Alaska Current

This story was originally published in the Alaska Beacon. Tessa Hulls was making sandwiches in the Alaska Capitol when she learned she had won a Pulitzer Prize. Her book, “Feeding Ghosts,” is a nonfiction graphic novel that documents three generations of women in her family, starting with her grandmother, who was a journalist at the time of the Chinese Communist Revolution. It had already won three national awards by the time the Pulitzer announ…