Randy Ribay

Randy Ribay is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. His novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, was selected as a Freeman Book Award winner, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, LA Times Book Prize, Walden Book Award, Edgar Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He also contributed a short story to the Printz Award-winning anthology edited by A.S. King, The Collectors. His other works include Project Kawayan, After the Shot Drops, and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes. His next novels, The Chronicles of the Avatar: The Reckoning of Roku (Amulet/Abrams) and Everything We Never Had (Kokila/Penguin) will be out in 2024. Born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Randy earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Ed.M. in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and cat-like dog.