Born in Mazatlan, in the northern state of Sinaloa, Patricia considers herself “mazatleca” even though she left town at 18. Learning has always been enjoyable to her. She has liked reading, numbers, languages and solving problems since she was a kid.  She studied Economics at ITAM and a Master’s in Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Patricia worked in affordable housing development, advised nonprofit organizations and researched public policy issues from within government. In 2002 she helped start Alternativas y Capacidades, a capacity building organization in Mexico City, where she worked for years. Her focus was nonprofit management and governance, corporate philanthropy and social investment, and public policy advocacy. From 2019 to 2025 she was part of the Advisory Board of GENDES, a nonprofit organization working on masculinities. She currently participates in Aúna, a platform created in 2020 to promote the leadership of women in politics.

Writing became a new path in her professional life in 2011, when she started taking short-story writing workshops. Encrucijada (Crossroads), her first children´s book, was selected by the Jalisco State Council for Culture and Arts in 2015 and published in 2016.  Nadie que me comprenda (There’s no one to understand me), her first book of short stories, won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award in 2015 and was published in 2018. She studied creative writing at SOGEM Guadalajara and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators since 2015.