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Randy Ribay


Born
in Manila, Philippines
February 07, 1984

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Randy Ribay is an award-winning author of young adult fiction. His most recent novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, earned five starred reviews, 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. 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 (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 h
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2025 APALA YA Award speech

Thank you to APALA and the awards committee. And congratulations to Makiia, Gene, LeUyen, and all of the other authors and illustrators whose work is being honored tonight. Growing up, I didn’t read many books by Asian American authors—or a single book by a Filipino American until I was in college. So, I deeply appreciate the way this organization creates space for our stories.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 31,509 ratings · 6,056 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
Patron Saints of Nothing

4.21 avg rating — 19,533 ratings — published 2019 — 15 editions
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Everything We Never Had

4.14 avg rating — 2,726 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions
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After the Shot Drops

4.14 avg rating — 2,703 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions
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The Reckoning of Roku (Chro...

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The Grimoire of Grave Fates

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An Infinite Number of Paral...

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“I will try not to judge because I have no idea what you were struggling with in your heart, what complicated your soul. None of us are just one thing, I guess.”
Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

“It strikes me that I cannot claim this country’s serene coves and sun-soaked beaches without also claiming its poverty, its problems, its history. To say that any aspect of it is part of me is to say that all of it is part of me.”
Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

“Sometimes I feel like growing up is slowly peeling back these layers of lies.”
Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing

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