Hulls approached *Feeding Ghosts* as an act of reluctant but necessary reckoning—confronting her grandmother’s life in 20th-century China and the intergenerational trauma embedded in silence and migration. She deliberately chose the graphic memoir format to hold complexity, emotional distance, and multiplicity, building the book from a rigorous 10,000-word outline and extensive research—including four years of travel, archival work in Hong Kong, and translation of her grandmother’s unpublished memoir. Visual metaphors like Russian nesting dolls link personal decline with national upheaval, especially during the Great Leap Forward. Her process was iterative and non-linear: writing and drawing simultaneously, withholding final text during illustration, and redrawing over 30 pages. She credits editor Daphne Durham and agent Anjali Singh for recognizing the project’s hybrid ambition. Time spent in solitude—on a solo cross-country bike ride and at the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency—shaped her discipline and focus. Amid pandemic isolation, she safeguarded family privacy, especially relatives in China, while preparing the memoir for translation and publication in Taiwan.