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ABOUT

Randy Ribay writes stories for young people and the young at heart. He's the author of Patron Saints of Nothing; Everything We Never Had; Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku; and more. He's a two-time National Book Award nominee, a co-winner of the Michael L. Printz award, and a recipient of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association book award. His books have appeared on the New York Times, Indie, and USA Today best-sellers lists. 

Born in the Philippines and raised in Michigan and Colorado, Randy currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and cat-like dog. 
 


(You can pronounce his last name correctly by saying it like REE-bye.)
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Photo by Leopoldo Macaya
NOVELS
NEST OF TONGUES 
(Forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2026)
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AVATAR, THE LAST AIRBENDER: THE AWAKENING OF ROKU (Chronicles of the Avatar, Book 6)
(Forthcoming from Abrams Books, 2025)


AVATAR, THE LAST AIRBENDER: THE RECKONING OF ROKU (Chronicles of the Avatar, Book 5)
(Abrams Books, 2024)

EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD
(Forthcoming from Kokila/Penguin Random House, Aug 2024)

PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING
(Kokila/Penguin Random House, 2019)

AFTER THE SHOT DROPS
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

AN INFINITE NUMBER OF PARALLEL UNIVERSES
(Merit Press/Simon Pulse, 2015)
SHORT STORIES
The Collectors, ed. by A.S. King (Dutton Books/Penguin Random House, 2023)

House Party
, ed. by justin a. reynolds (Joy Revolution Books/Random House Kids, summer 2023) 

​Boundless, ed. by Rebecca Balcárcel & Ismée Williams 
(Inkyard Press, 2023)

The Grimoire of Grave Fates, ed. by Hanna Alkaf & Margaret Owen
(Delacorte, 2023)

You Are Here: Connecting Flights ed. by Ellen Oh (Allida/HarperCollins, winter 2023)

"Project Kawayan"
(Audible, June 2022) 

"Laban" 
The New York Times 
(2019)

"Ours" 
FORESHADOW
(2019) 

"Snow-Covered Sidewalks"
WELCOME HOME, edited by Eric Smith
(Flux Books, 2017)

"Mason, On His Way Home"
READING GLASSES, edited by Amy Holiday & Jessica Walsh
(Hypothetical Press, 2014)

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