Patricia Quintana Bidar is a western writer from the Port of Los Angeles area. She is first generation college graduate: an alum of the U.C. Davis Graduate Writing Program, where she taught creative writing and earned a Master’s Degree in English. Patricia also holds a degree in filmmaking. She is the author of a collection of short works, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press, 2025) and a novelette, Wild Plums (ELJ Editions, 2024). Patricia’s work has been celebrated in Wigleaf's Top 50 and widely anthologized including in Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2023), Best Microfiction (Pelekinesis Press, 2023), and Best Small Fictions (Alternating Current, 2023 and 2024). She lives with her family and unusual dog outside of Oakland, California.

Patricia is proud to serve on staff at STORY Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, and the Wigleaf 50.