Patricia Grossman was raised in suburban Cleveland and moved to New York City at the age of 18 to study drawing and painting at the Pratt Institute. Her lifelong love of the visual arts is often reflected in her fiction. Her second novel, Four Figures in Time, is set at an art school, and primary and secondary characters in other novels include a potter, an art history instructor, and the daughter of an abstract expressionist. A novel in progress centers on an art conservator.
After graduating from Pratt, Grossman acquired an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with E.L. Doctorow and Grace Paley. Her novel Brian in Three Seasons won the 2006 Ferro Grumley award.
Grossman lives in Brooklyn, NY.