PRESS
MOST RECENT
ScreenRant: The Reckoning of Roku exclusive excerpt (June 2024)
RECORDED PANELS
022 Winner of Spalding Prize for Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature (Aug 2022)
Mahalaya Interview (Jun 2022)
Washington Post: 18 YA Books to Read with Your Teen This Summer" (May 2022)
Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writing lecture (July 15, 2021)
In conversation w/ Sandra Cisneros [YouTube/Facebook] (Oct 22, 2020)
Filipinx American MG & YA panel w/Erin Entrada Kelly, Mae Respicio, R. Zamora Linmark, and Marie Cruz (May 22, 2020)
"Asian Diaspora Experience" w/Kat Cho, Tara Sim, Julie Dao, & Samira Ahmed (May 8, 2020)
Bay Area Book Festival panel w/ Romina Garber (May 6, 2020)
"Mental Health Matters" w/ I.W. Gregorio, Kelly Loy Gilbert, and Misa Sugiura (Apr 20, 2020)
National Book Foundation panel at Wordplay w/ Laila Lalami (Apr 15, 2020)
National Book Foundation panel at Texas Book Festival w/Jericho Brown & Julia Phillips (Oct 26, 2019)
INTERVIEWS
Mahalaya Interview (Jun 2022)
Harvard Ed. Magazine profile (June 2020)
Penguin Teen: We Are YA podcast interview (Mar 2020)
Afire Pages Interview (Feb 2020)
APALA Interview (Jan 2020)
LitHub: Meet the 2019 National Book Award Finalists (Nov 2019)
Rappler interview (Nov 2019)
Mill Valley Library 8 Books Podcast Interview (Oct 2019)
Positively Filipino Interview (Oct 2019)
CNN Philippines Interview (Aug 2019)
Minnesota Public Radio interview for Patron Saint of Nothing (Jul 2019)
Character Media profile (Jul 2019)
NPR: "Patron Saints of Nothing is a book for the 'Hyphenated'" (Jun 2019)
NBC: "How the Philippines Drug War Inspired Novelist Randy Ribay's Patron Saints of Nothing" (June 2019)
Booklist Interview (May 2019)
What Book Hooked You? Podcast Interview (Mar 2018)
Writer Writer Pants on Fire Interview (Mar 2018)
The Writer Librarian Interview (Mar 2018)
Minnesota Public Radio Interview for After the Shot Drops (Feb 2018)
Hollywood News Source: Author interview (Oct 2016)
Fearless Fifteeners: Author interview (Oct 2015)
Bookwormaniac: Author interview (Aug 2015)
Bookish Babes: Author interview (Aug 2015)
Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire: Author interview (Jul 2015)
Author interview with MK England (Apr 2015)
Hypothetical Press: Author interview (Aug 2014)
AUTHORED/GUEST POSTS
2020 Amelia Walden Award finalist speech (Nov 2020)
"Our Tears Are Not Enough" (Jul 2020)
"Critical Lit Theory as Preparation for the Real World" (Nov 2019)
"Reading Recommendations for Filipinx Americans" (Oct 2019)
"Laban" a short story for the New York Times (Jun 2019)
"Ours" a short story for Foreshadow (Jan 2019)
"Constructing a Healthier Masculinity" (Jul 2018)
The Atlantic: Response to Alex Tizon's "My Family's Slave" (Jun 2017)
"Why Schools Still Need Libraries (and Librarians)" (Jun 2015)
"We Need (More) Diverse Authors" (Jun 2015)
"Lesser-Known Heroes" (Jan 2015)
"We Need Diverse Books Because of Ferguson" (Dec 2014)
"Are You Ready for Some Football...Books?" (Oct 2014)
"Blasting the Canon" (Sep 2014)
"Why Are We Doing Any of This?" (Jul 2014)
"Confront and Question" (Jun 2014)
"Summer Reading Remixed" (May 2014)
"Where Do You Buy These?" (Apr 2014)
"What Makes a Good YA Urban Novel?" (Oct 2013)
FEATURED
The Mary Sue: "15 Best Modern Mystery Books" (Jan 2023)
2022 Winner of Spalding Prize for Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature (Aug 2022)
Washington Post: 18 YA Books to Read with Your Teen This Summer" (May 2022)
Today Show: 15 Diverse Children's & YA Books Recommended by Kids (Aug 2020)
GMA: Howie Severino's Lockdown Reading (Apr 2020)
Rappler: Review by Senator Leila de Lima (Feb 2020)
2020 Edgar Award Nominees (Jan 2020)
2019 Freeman Book Awards (Jan 2020)
YALSA: 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Jan 2020)
Audible: Best YA Audiobooks of 2019 (Jan 2020)
Philippine Daily Inquirer: Top 10 Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
Buzzfeed: The 30 Best YA Books of the Decade (Dec 2019)
Buzzfeed: 31 of the Best YA Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
Kirkus: Best YA Books of 2019 About Living Boldly (Dec 2019)
NY Public Library Best Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
NBC: Best Children's & YA Asian American Books of 2019 (Nov 2019)
Amazon Best Books of 2019 (Nov 2019)
National Book Foundation: 2019 Finalists (Nov 2019)
Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2019 (Oct 2019)
Rappler: YA Novel Set in Duterte's 'Drug War' Among Finalists in 2019 National Book Awards (Oct 2019)
2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Young Peoples Literature (Sep 2019)
BuzzFeed: "23 YA Books That We're Absolutely Loving This Summer" (Jul 2019)
The Washington Post: "Three Books to Help Kids--and their Parents--Talk About Difficult Subjects" (Jul 2019)
ABS-CBN: "Fil-Am Author's Latest YA Book" (Jun 2019)
Book Riot: Hey YA Podcast Ep. 46 ( Jun 2019)
Amazon: Best YA Books of 2019 So Far (Jun 2019)
ABS-CBN (Jun 2019)
Philippine Daily Inquirer (Jun 2019)
USA Today Book Review (Jun 2019)
Epic Reads: The 17 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in June (May 2019)
NBCNews: An Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List (May 2019)
Barnes & Noble Teen: 25 of Our Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Books of 2019 (Jan 2019)
Barnes & Noble Teen: 29 of Our Most Anticipated Contemporaries of 2019 (Dec 2018)
The Must-Reads of 2018 from We Need Diverse Books (Dec 2018)
Kirkus Best YA Books About Facing Trauma of 2018 (Dec 2018)
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens of 2018 (Nov 2018)
School Library Journal Best Books of 2018 (Nov 2018)
Patron Saints of Nothing Reveal + Excerpt (Oct 2018)
Barnes & Noble Teen YA Open Mic (Mar 2018)
Lit CelebrAsian: March Books by Asian Authors (Mar 2018)
BookBub: 22 Books Coming in 2018 Recommended by Librarians (Jan 2018)
Bustle: 27 Most Anticipated YA Contemporary Books Hitting Shelves in 2018 (Dec 2017)
Bustle: 17 YA Books by Authors of Color to Look Out For in the First Half of 2018 (Oct 2017)
Paste Magazine: After the Shot Drops cover reveal + excerpt (July 2017)
NJ Star-Ledger Review of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes (Nov 2015)
Paste Magazine: "13 of the Best New YA books in October" (Oct 2015)
Barnes & Noble Teen: YA open mic (Sep 2015)
Barnes & Noble Teen: "Top 20 Most Anticipated October YA Releases" (Sep 2015)
Bookriot: "Read This, Then That: An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes & Other Geeky YA" (Sep 2015)
Geekadelphia: Geek of the Week (Sep 2015)
Candymag: "10 YA Novels You Definitely Need to Read RN" (Aug 2015)
YA Highway: An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes cover reveal + excerpt (May 2015)
ScreenRant: The Reckoning of Roku exclusive excerpt (June 2024)
RECORDED PANELS
022 Winner of Spalding Prize for Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature (Aug 2022)
Mahalaya Interview (Jun 2022)
Washington Post: 18 YA Books to Read with Your Teen This Summer" (May 2022)
Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writing lecture (July 15, 2021)
In conversation w/ Sandra Cisneros [YouTube/Facebook] (Oct 22, 2020)
Filipinx American MG & YA panel w/Erin Entrada Kelly, Mae Respicio, R. Zamora Linmark, and Marie Cruz (May 22, 2020)
"Asian Diaspora Experience" w/Kat Cho, Tara Sim, Julie Dao, & Samira Ahmed (May 8, 2020)
Bay Area Book Festival panel w/ Romina Garber (May 6, 2020)
"Mental Health Matters" w/ I.W. Gregorio, Kelly Loy Gilbert, and Misa Sugiura (Apr 20, 2020)
National Book Foundation panel at Wordplay w/ Laila Lalami (Apr 15, 2020)
National Book Foundation panel at Texas Book Festival w/Jericho Brown & Julia Phillips (Oct 26, 2019)
INTERVIEWS
Mahalaya Interview (Jun 2022)
Harvard Ed. Magazine profile (June 2020)
Penguin Teen: We Are YA podcast interview (Mar 2020)
Afire Pages Interview (Feb 2020)
APALA Interview (Jan 2020)
LitHub: Meet the 2019 National Book Award Finalists (Nov 2019)
Rappler interview (Nov 2019)
Mill Valley Library 8 Books Podcast Interview (Oct 2019)
Positively Filipino Interview (Oct 2019)
CNN Philippines Interview (Aug 2019)
Minnesota Public Radio interview for Patron Saint of Nothing (Jul 2019)
Character Media profile (Jul 2019)
NPR: "Patron Saints of Nothing is a book for the 'Hyphenated'" (Jun 2019)
NBC: "How the Philippines Drug War Inspired Novelist Randy Ribay's Patron Saints of Nothing" (June 2019)
Booklist Interview (May 2019)
What Book Hooked You? Podcast Interview (Mar 2018)
Writer Writer Pants on Fire Interview (Mar 2018)
The Writer Librarian Interview (Mar 2018)
Minnesota Public Radio Interview for After the Shot Drops (Feb 2018)
Hollywood News Source: Author interview (Oct 2016)
Fearless Fifteeners: Author interview (Oct 2015)
Bookwormaniac: Author interview (Aug 2015)
Bookish Babes: Author interview (Aug 2015)
Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire: Author interview (Jul 2015)
Author interview with MK England (Apr 2015)
Hypothetical Press: Author interview (Aug 2014)
AUTHORED/GUEST POSTS
2020 Amelia Walden Award finalist speech (Nov 2020)
"Our Tears Are Not Enough" (Jul 2020)
"Critical Lit Theory as Preparation for the Real World" (Nov 2019)
"Reading Recommendations for Filipinx Americans" (Oct 2019)
"Laban" a short story for the New York Times (Jun 2019)
"Ours" a short story for Foreshadow (Jan 2019)
"Constructing a Healthier Masculinity" (Jul 2018)
The Atlantic: Response to Alex Tizon's "My Family's Slave" (Jun 2017)
"Why Schools Still Need Libraries (and Librarians)" (Jun 2015)
"We Need (More) Diverse Authors" (Jun 2015)
"Lesser-Known Heroes" (Jan 2015)
"We Need Diverse Books Because of Ferguson" (Dec 2014)
"Are You Ready for Some Football...Books?" (Oct 2014)
"Blasting the Canon" (Sep 2014)
"Why Are We Doing Any of This?" (Jul 2014)
"Confront and Question" (Jun 2014)
"Summer Reading Remixed" (May 2014)
"Where Do You Buy These?" (Apr 2014)
"What Makes a Good YA Urban Novel?" (Oct 2013)
FEATURED
The Mary Sue: "15 Best Modern Mystery Books" (Jan 2023)
2022 Winner of Spalding Prize for Promotion of Peace & Justice in Literature (Aug 2022)
Washington Post: 18 YA Books to Read with Your Teen This Summer" (May 2022)
Today Show: 15 Diverse Children's & YA Books Recommended by Kids (Aug 2020)
GMA: Howie Severino's Lockdown Reading (Apr 2020)
Rappler: Review by Senator Leila de Lima (Feb 2020)
2020 Edgar Award Nominees (Jan 2020)
2019 Freeman Book Awards (Jan 2020)
YALSA: 2020 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Jan 2020)
Audible: Best YA Audiobooks of 2019 (Jan 2020)
Philippine Daily Inquirer: Top 10 Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
Buzzfeed: The 30 Best YA Books of the Decade (Dec 2019)
Buzzfeed: 31 of the Best YA Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
Kirkus: Best YA Books of 2019 About Living Boldly (Dec 2019)
NY Public Library Best Books of 2019 (Dec 2019)
NBC: Best Children's & YA Asian American Books of 2019 (Nov 2019)
Amazon Best Books of 2019 (Nov 2019)
National Book Foundation: 2019 Finalists (Nov 2019)
Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2019 (Oct 2019)
Rappler: YA Novel Set in Duterte's 'Drug War' Among Finalists in 2019 National Book Awards (Oct 2019)
2019 National Book Awards Longlist: Young Peoples Literature (Sep 2019)
BuzzFeed: "23 YA Books That We're Absolutely Loving This Summer" (Jul 2019)
The Washington Post: "Three Books to Help Kids--and their Parents--Talk About Difficult Subjects" (Jul 2019)
ABS-CBN: "Fil-Am Author's Latest YA Book" (Jun 2019)
Book Riot: Hey YA Podcast Ep. 46 ( Jun 2019)
Amazon: Best YA Books of 2019 So Far (Jun 2019)
ABS-CBN (Jun 2019)
Philippine Daily Inquirer (Jun 2019)
USA Today Book Review (Jun 2019)
Epic Reads: The 17 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in June (May 2019)
NBCNews: An Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List (May 2019)
Barnes & Noble Teen: 25 of Our Most Anticipated #OwnVoices YA Books of 2019 (Jan 2019)
Barnes & Noble Teen: 29 of Our Most Anticipated Contemporaries of 2019 (Dec 2018)
The Must-Reads of 2018 from We Need Diverse Books (Dec 2018)
Kirkus Best YA Books About Facing Trauma of 2018 (Dec 2018)
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens of 2018 (Nov 2018)
School Library Journal Best Books of 2018 (Nov 2018)
Patron Saints of Nothing Reveal + Excerpt (Oct 2018)
Barnes & Noble Teen YA Open Mic (Mar 2018)
Lit CelebrAsian: March Books by Asian Authors (Mar 2018)
BookBub: 22 Books Coming in 2018 Recommended by Librarians (Jan 2018)
Bustle: 27 Most Anticipated YA Contemporary Books Hitting Shelves in 2018 (Dec 2017)
Bustle: 17 YA Books by Authors of Color to Look Out For in the First Half of 2018 (Oct 2017)
Paste Magazine: After the Shot Drops cover reveal + excerpt (July 2017)
NJ Star-Ledger Review of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes (Nov 2015)
Paste Magazine: "13 of the Best New YA books in October" (Oct 2015)
Barnes & Noble Teen: YA open mic (Sep 2015)
Barnes & Noble Teen: "Top 20 Most Anticipated October YA Releases" (Sep 2015)
Bookriot: "Read This, Then That: An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes & Other Geeky YA" (Sep 2015)
Geekadelphia: Geek of the Week (Sep 2015)
Candymag: "10 YA Novels You Definitely Need to Read RN" (Aug 2015)
YA Highway: An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes cover reveal + excerpt (May 2015)