Kate Elliott is the pen name of American fantasy and science fiction writer Alis A. Rasmussen (born 1958).
[1] Although Rasmussen's first novels The Labyrinth Gate (1988) and The Highroad (1990) (a science fiction trilogy) failed to become bestsellers, additional publishers liked her manuscripts.
[5] The 1996 collaboration between Elliott, Melanie Rawn, and Jennifer Roberson on The Golden Key was coordinated primarily via fax machine.
[6] In 2020, Elliott published Unconquerable Sun, the first novel in a gender-bending space opera trilogy based on Alexander the Great.
[7] A native of Junction City, Oregon, Rasmussen moved to Oakland, California to attend Mills College.