Randy Ribay is an award-winning writer of young adult fiction. In addition to The Reckoning of Roku and The Awakening of Roku, he is the author of Patron Saints of Nothing , which won the Freeman Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. He also contributed to the Printz Award-winning anthology, The Collectors, edited by A.S. King. His other novels include Everything We Never Had, After the Shot Drops , and An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes .

Born in the Philippines and raised in the Midwest, Randy earned his BA in English literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his EdM in language and literacy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and catlike dog.