Patricia Wakida is a writer and artist. She is the editor of four books, Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, Unfinished Message: The Collected Works of Toshio Mori, Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley, and LAtitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas. For the past twenty years, she has edited, curated or researched in collaboration with numerous cultural institutions such as the Japanese American National Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Topaz Museum, Densho Encyclopedia, Discover Nikkei, and serves on numerous non-profit boards.
She is a yonsei (4th generation Japanese American), whose parents were incarcerated as children in the Jerome and Gila River concentration camps. At Mesa, she worked on a biography of former City Lights bookman, Shigeyoshi Murao.