Nationality Canada Role Novelist Period 1995 - Education Canadian Film Centre | Genre fiction Movies Ms. Thing Name Karen Tulchinsky | |
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Occupation novelist, screen writer Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Erotica, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction People also search for Mette Bach, Andrea Hector Books Love ruins everything, In Her Nature, Love and other ruins, Friday the Rabbi Wore Lace, The Five Books of Moses La | ||
Karen X. Tulchinsky is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, anthologist and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is openly lesbian.
Career
Tulchinsky has edited several literary anthologies. Her collection of short stories In Her Nature (1996), was awarded the 1996 VanCity Book Prize. Her novel The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky was a City of Toronto Book Award finalist and winner of the Vancouver Public Library's One Book One Vancouver Prize of 2008.
In addition to her published work, Tulchinsky has studied screenwriting at the Canadian Film Centre. She has written six feature-length screenplays, a short film, an episode of the television series Robson Arms and the television film Floored By Love. She was story editor for the documentary series KinK, a story editor and writer on the drama series The Guard, a creative consultant on Glutton for Punishment (Food Network) and a consulting producer on Dussault Inc. and The Opener. She was Senior Story Editor on The Bachelor Canada and World's Weirdest Restaurants, and story editor/writer on Pyros, Timber Kings, The Audience, First Dates, Game of Homes and Border Security.
Tulchinsky has written several feature-length screenplays, including I Shot The Sheriff, to be directed by acclaimed Toronto director, Clement Virgo.
Her directorial debut is Ms. Thing (2011) Passionate Warrior Productions, (screenplay by Mette Bach) which has screened in 53 film festivals internationally, including screenings at Out On Screen Vancouver, Toronto Independent Film Festival, Cork Film Festival Ireland, Q Film Festival Long Beach, California, ImageOut Rochester, New York, Cinekink New York City, Queer Fruits Australia, The London Lesbian Film Festival Festival Del Sol, Spain Pink Apple Film Festival Zurich. Switzerland, Mix Milano Italy and Frameline San Francisco.
Ms. Thing was first runner-up at Out On Screen's Short Film Award, and WON Audience Choice Award at QueerFruits Australia.
Tulchinsky has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun, Quill and Quire, Herizons, Curve and Diva. She's the author of a monthly political column, "Homo Panic", for Xtra Vancouver.
In 2009, she served on the jury for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Debra Anderson as that year's prize winner. She has been on Vancouver Women in Film Festival's evaluation committee and a Board Member of the Queer Arts Festival. She has taught creative writing at Langara College and the University of British Columbia.