Tessa Hulls: Questions to Connect with Your Roots

About this episode

Tessa Hulls discusses her work and the themes of memory and identity in her graphic novel Feeding Ghosts.

Tessa Hulls is an artist, writer, and author of the graphic novel Feeding Ghosts, a work awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Her work explores memory, identity, and the traces of intergenerational trauma through the story of her own family.

People in this episode

Guest: Tessa Hulls

Topics covered

• memory
• identity
• intergenerational trauma
• art
• graphic novel

Keywords

• Tessa Hulls
• Feeding Ghosts
• memory
• identity
• intergenerational trauma
• graphic novel

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Feeding Ghosts

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