Events › Tessa Hulls: Feeding Ghosts

How far do you have to run to escape your family's past, and what happens when you decide to stop running and face it instead?

In her dazzling new graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, author and artist Tessa Hulls tells the story of three generations of women in her family—and unpacks the trauma, dislocation and identity crises that haunt them all. The story traverses Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, California and even Antarctica as Tessa searches for meaning and answers amidst the story of her family—accompanied by gorgeous illustrations and surprising humour.

Join Tessa Hulls in conversation with Jen Sookfong Lee and find out why Feeding Ghosts is being hailed as “an artistic and intellectual tour de force, a massive and moving achievement."

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Tessa Hulls is an artist, a writer, and an adventurer. Her essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Adventure Journal, and her comics have been published in The Rumpus, City Arts, and Spark. She has been awarded grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the McMillen Foundation, and is the recipient of the Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. Feeding Ghosts is her first book.

Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include Superfan, named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books; The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Shadow List; and Finding Home. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast Can’t Lit.

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This event is part of Uplift Asian, a programming series at VPL designed to celebrate Asian cultures and perspectives, and push back against discrimination in our communities.