Patron Saints of Nothing appeared on several Best of 2019 lists including those published by NPR, Kirkus, and the New York Public Library The book was also nominated for the 2020 Edgar Awards chosen by the Mystery Writers of America. Although initially rejected by several editors, the book won the Freeman Award and was short-listed for the National Book Awards for Young People's Literature in 2019. Ribay is the author of the award-winning book Patron Saints of Nothing (2019). He began his writing career by writing poetry but broke into the prose writing scene by participating in Pitch Slam at a Writer's Digest annual conference. Ribay teaches high school English in San Francisco, CA. His master's degree was in language and literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Personal life īorn in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Ribay was originally an aerospace engineering major who changed his major to English literature and earned his Bachelor of Arts in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ribay has won the 2019 Freeman Book 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. Randy Ribay is an American writer of middle grade and young adult fiction.
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