Patricia Quintana Bidar
Patricia Quintana Bidar is a western writer from the Port of Los Angeles area. She holds a BA in filmmaking and a MA in English, the latter from the University of California, Davis’s Graduate Writing Program. Patricia’s short fiction has been widely published in journals including Wigleaf, Smokelong Quarterly, The Pinch, Atticus Review, and Variant Lit and widely anthologized, including in Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton), Best Small Fictions 2023 and 2024 (Alternating Current), and Best Microfiction 2023 (Pelekinesis Press). Patricia serves as submission editor for Smokelong Quarterly. Her novelette, Wild Plums (ELJ Press) was published in 2024. Her collection of short works, Pardon Me For Moonwalking, is coming in December 2025 from Unsolicited Press.