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Writer’s Fest: My Pictures, My Words
October 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us in celebrating two new graphic memoirs by Chinese Canadian/American authors. Teresa Wong’s All Our Ordinary Stories and Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts enlighten us through their pictures and words, exploring multigenerational stories of immigration, identity and family.
The event will be moderated by Petti Fong, journalist and author of Alone Together.
Presented in Partnership with the Vancouver Writers Fest.
Author signings will follow, and books will be available for sale at Foo Hung Curios.
ABOUT TERESA WONG
Teresa Wong is the author of the graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories (2024) and Dear Scarlet (2019), a finalist for The City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize and longlisted for CBC Canada Reads. Her comics have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and The Walrus. A teacher of memoir and comics at Gotham Writers Workshop, she was also the 2021–22 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary.
ABOUT TESSA HULLS
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 multidisciplinary creative practice.