In honor of Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) Month, Ms. Yarborough writes:
“In 2025, the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir was won by Tessa Hulls for her graphic novel, Feeding Ghosts. The graphic novel is described on the Pulitzer’s website as, “An affecting work of literary art and discovery whose illustrations bring to life three generations of Chinese women – the author, her mother and grandmother, and the experience of trauma handed down with family histories”. After 33 years, Hulls joins Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, as the only other graphic novel creator to win a Pulitzer.
According to the bio on Tessa Hulls, her personal website:
Tessa Hulls is an artist/writer/adventurer illuminating the connections between the present and the past. As the mixed race daughter of two first generation immigrants who landed in a tiny town of 350 people, she grew up with no models of how she fit within American culture. Her family didn’t have TV and the internet didn’t yet exist, so she spent her formative years reading her way through the public library and roaming alone through the hills with a backpack full of books (she still does this). This fusion of solitude, research, and forward motion remains the bedrock of her extremely multidisciplinary creative practice.
To learn more about Hulls’ life and work, you can visit her site, which includes her full bio, her portfolio, and a link to her Instagram.
In honor of this momentous recognition of an AAPI author and acknowledgement of graphic novels as works of literature, check out Hulls’ memoir and/or one of the other AAPI graphic novels listed below.”
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