He was born into an Aromanian family in Avdella, a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece.
[1] Tulliu's first published work was an 1894 article in the Bucharest magazine Peninsula balcanică.
He subsequently contributed to other Romanian periodicals, including Albumul macedo-român, Cele trei Crișuri, Conservatorul, Dunărea, Flamura, Grai bun, Lilicea Pindului, Ordinea, Propilee literare, Românul de la Pind, Răsăritul, Timpul nou, Țara noastră and Universul.
From November 1898 to September 1899, he published Pindul using his own funds; the magazine featured poems and prose in the Aromanian language.
He headed Bucharest's Ecoul Macedoniei newspaper, and there published Murmintî fîră cruți (1903), which is described in Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române ("The Biographical Dictionary of Romanian Literature"; 2006), edited by the Romanian literary critic Aurel Sasu [ro], as the only novel in Aromanian-language literature.