Patricia Jang is a Korean-American playwright, screenwriter, all-around dabbler, and an avid cyclist and member of Transportation Alternatives. She grew up in the wilds of suburban Philly and has bounced around from Northampton to Provincetown and San Francisco to Chicago and has settled (for now) in Brooklyn, where she hopes the Atlantic Yards project will somehow disappear. She is also a regular contributor to The Loop.

Her plays include Yellow Peril 3.0, Artifact, Ein Berliner, An Atomic Life,Westward, Aboveboard, Counterspace, The Fix, and Next Paris. Mood Indigo, Patricia's first screenplay, won the Best Graduate Screenplay award at the Fusion Film Festival.

Patricia was the 2006-07 playwriting fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. She received a grant from the Donahue Tremaine Residuary Trust, which is dedicated to supporting individuals who, through their artistic endeavors, promote tolerance and understanding. She was also awarded an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in playwriting. She is a graduate of Smith College and has an MFA from the Rita and Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University, where she won the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting. She is a member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Company's Writers' Lab and the Rapid Response Team.