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Randy Ribay (born February 7, 1984) is an American author of novels for young adult and middle-grade audiences, including Patron Saints of Nothing, a National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.

Ribay was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan and Castle Rock, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. After teaching middle school and high school English for a few years, Ribay began writing during his summers. After several unsold manuscripts, he published his first novel, An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, in 2015. Ribay continued teaching while writing, and published his second book, After the Shot Drops, in 2018. A year later, Ribay's third novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, was released, which tells the story of a Filipino American teenager dealing with the loss of his cousin who was killed as a result of the Philippine drug war. It was named a winner of the Freeman Book Award for YA and was a finalist for National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for YA , the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best YA , and the Carnegie Medal.

Ribay currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and continues to teach high school English.