Patricia Anne McKillip (February 29, 1948 – May 6, 2022) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction.

[4][5][6] McKillip's first publications were two short children's books, The Throme of the Erril of Sherill and The House on Parchment Street.

[2] Her first novel, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, was published in 1974, when she was 26 years old, and won the World Fantasy Award in 1975.

[7] She next wrote the Riddle-Master trilogy (1976–1979), which scholar Peter Nicholls described as "a work of classic stature".

[8] McKillip was the Guest of Honor at the 1985 Mythcon and the 1999 World Fantasy Convention, and in 2005 the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts published a special issue on her work.