Patricia Quintana Bidar is the author of a flash fiction collection, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press, 2024) and the novelette, Wild Plums (ELJ Editions, 2023). Her work has appeared in many print and on-line journals and magazines, including Waxwing, Wigleaf, Pinch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Another Chicago, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Moon City Review, and anthologies including the Wigleaf Top 50, and in anthologies including Flash Fiction America (Norton, 2023), Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis, 2023), and Best Small Fictions (Alternating Current, 2023, 2024). She has served as a professional writer for human services nonprofits for 25 years. Patricia is a western writer and third-generation Californian from the Port of Los Angeles region. She lives with her family in San Leandro, CA.