[1] Tellure was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.
She obtained a degree in history and worked in various occupations such as artist's model and taxi dancer.
[3] Tellure's stories are set on an alien world over which a godlike creature rules, and which is also inhabited by smaller beings similar to humans.
[1] The stories were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from 1977 to 1984.
Stanley Schmidt recommended her works as examples of how to effectively write from an alien viewpoint.