Patricia Kusumaningtyas is an Indonesian writer, poet, film programmer, and tech worker based in Brooklyn, New York.

Patricia is most known for her film programming work with Indonesian Film Forum New York. She joined the organization in 2018 as a volunteer and worked with them ever since—including programming for their yearly Indonesian Film Festival New York, Indonesian Horror Night, as well as screenings in venues such as Anthology Film Archives, Roxy Cinema, Asia Society, and many others. She has also programmed and volunteered for New York-based festivals such as the Asian American International Film Festival and Athena Film Festival.

Patricia’s poetry has been featured in Roi Fainéant Press, HaluHalo Journal, Dead End Zine, Poetry is a Team Sport, Culinary Origami Journal, underscore_magazine, and Omong-Omong. They are a member of the 2025 Brooklyn Poets Mentorship cohort.

As a cultural critic, her work takes on many forms – she was an editor of the Sound Check profiles section of the Jakarta-based Speed of Sound Magazine and her music writing has been published in Major 7th Magazine and L’Ephemere Review. Their film criticism has been published in Our Home in the Dark, Arisan, and ACV CineVue. Her op-eds and other writing has been published in Whiteboard Journal, Dewi Magazine, Indonesia Mengglobal, and Magdalene.

Patricia is a fixture in the New York Indonesian community and have participated in organizing many Indonesian events in New York, including Kulturaksi arts festival in 2026, Bersinggungan art exhibition in 2025, and many others.

Their work focuses on Indonesian identity in the diaspora, the city as character, communities real and imagined, and the constant search for love.

Patricia holds a Bachelors degree in computer science from Columbia University and is currently working as a technical business analyst/project manager. She lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York.