Patricia A. McKillip is an American fantasy writer. She won the World Fantasy Award for
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and
Ombria in Shadow and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for
Something Rich and Strange and
Solstice Wood. Her other works include, among others,
the Riddle of the Stars trilogy, ''The Riddle-Master of Hed'', ''Heir of Sea and Fire'', and ''Harpist in the Wind'', and
The Changeling Sea,
The Book of Atrix Wolfe,
Winter Rose,
Song for the Basilisk,
The Tower at Stony Wood,
Ombria in Shadow,
In the Forests of Serre,
Alphabet of Thorn,
Od Magic,
Solstice Wood, and
The Bell at Sealey Head.
Tropes found in her works include: