Tulchinsky won the 1996 VanCity Book Prize for In Her Nature. It was followed by Love Ruins Everything (Press Gang, 1998) and its sequel Love and Other Ruins (Polestar, 2002). Tulchinsky has edited numerous anthologies, such as the Hot & Bothered series of sex stories, and graduated from the writers' lab of the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. Her novel The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky (Polestar 2003) is reviewed below.