ABOUT

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 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. 
 
(You can pronounce his last name correctly by saying it like REE-bye.)

Photo by Leopoldo Macaya

NOVELS
THE CHRONICLES OF THE AVATAR: THE RECKONING OF ROKU
(Forthcoming from Abrams Books, July 2024)

EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD
(Forthcoming from Kokila/PRH, 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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