Patricia Santana (born 1955 San Diego) is a Latina American novelist.
She is the eighth of nine children of Mexican immigrants.
She graduated from the University of California, San Diego, and from the University of California, Los Angeles with a master's degree in Comparative Literature.
She is a Spanish instructor at Cuyamaca Community College and is also an occasional visiting lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches creative writing.
This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1950s is a stub.