Patricia Barber (born November 8, 1955) is an American songwriter, composer, singer, and pianist.

Barber's father Floyd was a jazz saxophonist who played with Bud Freeman and Glenn Miller.

[1] From there Barber went to Chicago and began performing regularly in bars and clubs.

[1] She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in March 2003, an unusual accomplishment for someone working in the field of popular songwriting.

[2] The Guggenheim allowed her to devote time to a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphoses.