

Barrett wrote that her stories are "emotionally uncomfortable", and that "they not only make you think, they make you feel". Tuttle's fiction often focuses on gender issues and includes "strong-willed women" who question their identities. As editor she has compiled several anthologies, including Skin of the Soul: New Horror Stories by Women (1990), and Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity (1998), the latter covering the topic of genderbending. In addition to fiction, Tuttle has written non-fiction, including the Encyclopedia of Feminism (1986) and Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction (2002). Baglio in the US and as by Lucy Daniels in the UK. Baglio's Dolphin Diaries (2000–2002), a young-adult series of books, writing the first 8 books in the series, which were published as by Ben M. In 1987 she wrote the Casualty novelization Megan's Story under the name Laura Waring, Virgo: Snake Inside for a series of twelve young-adult books called Horrorscopes (1995) under the house pseudonym of Maria Palmer (although it was later reissued under her own name), and was a contributing author to Ben M. She has written under different shared house pen names with other authors for series of books. She has also written young adult fiction and published several titles, including Catwitch (with illustrator Una Woodruff) (1983), Panther in Argyll (1996) and Love-on-Line (1998). Over the next 25 years Tuttle wrote a number science fiction and fantasy novels, including Lost Futures (1992), which was nominated for the Arthur C. Tuttle and Martin later expanded the novella into a novel, Windhaven, which was published in 1981.

Martin on a novella, The Storms of Windhaven that was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1976. Tuttle collaborated with author and screenwriter George R. Campbell Award for Best New Writer with Spider Robinson. In 1973 Tuttle and several other science fiction writers, including Howard Waldrop, Steven Utley and Bruce Sterling, founded the Turkey City Writer's Workshop in Austin, Texas, and in 1974 she was joint winner of the John W.

In 1974 Tuttle received a BA degree in English Literature and moved to Austin, Texas where she worked as a journalist for five years at the Austin American-Statesman, a daily newspaper. In 1971 Tuttle attended the Clarion Writer's Workshop, running that year at Tulane University in New Orleans, after which she sold her first short story, "Stranger in the House", which appeared in 1972 in Clarion II, an anthology edited by Robin Wilson. At Syracuse University in New York, she wrote for the university's fanzine Tomorrow And…, plus several alternative newspapers. Lamar Senior High School in Houston she was active in science fiction fandom, and founded and edited the Houston Science Fiction Society's fanzine, Mathom. Lisa Tuttle began writing when she attended The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village, Texas.
