Patricia Forde (born c. 1960) was former Director of the Galway Arts Festival and an Irish children's author.
She spent ten years as a primary school teacher, and was one of the early members of Macnas.
While working with Macnas she took a year's leave from teaching to write her first book, Tír faoi Thoinn.
However, an opportunity to become Director of the Galway Arts Festival (proposed by Ollie Jennings in 1990) meant that she never returned to teaching.
She left in 1995, subsequently working in Ros na Rún, Aifric and RTÉ soap Fair City.