 Beginning her teaching career at Wellesley College and Barnard College, she went on to teach creative writing at the Ivy League institution, Columbia University for forty years with her lifelong partner, Mabel Louise Robinson.Hull was born in Albion, Michigan, as the eldest child of her family on March 28, 1888 to Warren C. and Louise Hull.Her father, was a former teacher and school superintendent of the Albion Public Schools from 1887 to 1898.