Please join us this month for an exciting interview with Randy Ribay. A former SJWG member, Randy has risen to success in the Young Adult market. He will talk to us about his writer’s journey and what it means to write ethnically and culturally diverse stories.
Please note: This meeting will be a one-on-one interview. An opportunity for Q&A MAY be available. Check back for further information.
Randy is the author of three books starting with An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, followed by After the Shot Drops. His most recent novel, Patron Saints of Nothing, is a powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, privilege, risk, and integrity. A Filipino-American teenager confronts himself and the wider world to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder.
Patron Saints of Nothing was selected as a 2019 Freeman Book Award winner for YA and as a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, LA Times Book Prize for YA, MWA Edgar Award for Best YA, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award, and International Thriller Writers YA Award. It was also named one of the best YA books of 2019 by Amazon, NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Audible, Fully Booked, Philippine Daily Inquirer, NY Public Library, Texas Librarians’ Association, YALSA, & Kirkus.
Randy earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his Master’s Degree in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He teaches high school English in the San Francisco Bay Area where he lives with his wife and two dogs.
(You can pronounce his last name correctly as REE-bye.)
Text provided and event hosted by Sharyn Konyak.
Randy Ribay’s website
http://www.randyribay.com/
