Randy Ribay is an American writer of middle grade and young adult fiction.
Ribay has won the 2019 Freeman Award from the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Awards for Young People's Literature category for his book Patron Saints of Nothing.
[1] Born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Ribay initially studied aerospace engineering, but later changed his major to English literature and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Colorado Boulder.
[3] The book was also nominated for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel chosen by the Mystery Writers of America.
[5] Patron Saints of Nothing appeared on several Best of 2019 lists including those published by NPR, Kirkus, and the New York Public Library[6][7][8] The book is a coming-of-age story about Jay Reguero, a Filipino-American boy of high school age.