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Randy Ribay is the author of An Infinite Number of Parallel Universes, After the Shot Drops, and, most recently, Patron Saints of Nothing—which received five starred reviews, was selected as a Freeman Book Award winner, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, LA Times Book Prize, Walden Book Award, Edgar Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the UK’s CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Randy was born in the Philippines and raised in the United States. He earned his BA in English Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his EdM in Language and Literacy from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and teaches high school English full time

] The book was also nominated for the 2020 Edgar Awards 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]

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Jason Tanamor (born April 25, 1975) is a Filipino-American author, writer, and entertainment interviewer. He and his books have been featured in many publications such as Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Yahoo!, Esquire (Philippines),[1] CNN Philippines,[2] Daily Inquirer (Philippines), and Daily Tribune (Philippines). Tanamor also is ranked in the Favorite Filipino and Filipino-American Author poll at Ranker.[3] He was named as one of the "5 Best Modern Filipino Writers" by Pinas magazine.

His novels range in genre, from dark in nature to satirical and from young adult to children's. His novel, a NA urban fantasy about Filipino folklore (aswang) called Vampires of Portlandia, touches upon his love for campy horror stories. "It’s not really a fascination but I do love the genre, but mixed with dark humor or comedy, which includes the shows 'Supernatural' and 'Grimm', and the movies 'The Lost Boys' and 'Beetlejuice'. The new novel is a mashup of these shows and movies."It was recently optioned for screen and is currently in development.

Tanamor's newest effort, a YA titled Love, Dance & Egg Rolls is set in Portland during the Trump Administration and follows high school sophomore, Jamie, whose sole purpose in life is to become the next Tinikling master. (Tinikling is the national dance of the Philippines.)[7] On May 10, 2022, the day it debuted, Powell's Books picked it as a "Pick of the Month."

His two novels, Anonymous and Drama Dolls, have received critical acclaim from major publications such as Publishers Weekly – who called him a "promising writer with lots of potential" and compared him to Chuck Palahniuk and Charles Bukowski

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Gilbert Luis R. Centina III (May 19, 1947 – May 1, 2020) was a Filipino-American award-winning Roman Catholic poet who was the author of nine poetry books, two novels and a book of literary criticism. Respected for his poetry,his works have been anthologized in Philippine high school and college textbooks and published in the Philippines, Spain, Canada and the United States.

Besides English, he also wrote in Spanish and in two Philippine languages, Hiligaynon and Tagalog. He received the Catholic Authors Award in 1996 from the Asian Catholic Publishers and the Archdiocese of Manila under Cardinal Jaime Sin.

For his body of poetic work in Spanish which over the years "has become an anthroponymic treasure, memory of parishioners, companions and friends who give title to a fresco of earthly life, with its glories and miseries...," he was posthumously awarded the Premio José Rizal de las Letras Filipinas 2020.

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Carlos Bulosan was born in the Philippines in the rural farming village of Mangusmana, near the town of Binalonan (Pangasinan province, Luzon island). He was the son of a farmer and spent most of his upbringing in the countryside with his family. Like many families in the Philippines, Carlos’s family struggled to survive during times of economic hardship. Many families were impoverished and many more would suffer because of the conditions in the Philippines created by US colonization.

Rural farming families like Carlos’ family experienced severe economic disparity due to the growing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the economic and political elite. Determined to help support his family and further his education, Carlos decided to come to America with the dream to fulfill these goals.

He is best known for his novel, "America Is in the Heart," published in 1946. The novel not only portrayed the appalling living and working conditions that Filipino migrant workers endured, but also served as a personal account of one man's struggle against racism in America.

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Francisco Balagtas was born in Barrio Panginay, Bigaa, Bulacan as the youngest of the four children of Juan Balagtas, a blacksmith, and Juana de la Cruz. He studied in a parochial school in Bigaa and later in Manila. During his childhood years. Francisco later worked as a houseboy in Tondo, Manila.

He is regarded as one of the most important poets in the country, known for his famous epic Florante at Laura, a piece that is required reading among elementary and hight school students across the Philippine islands.

While imprisoned, Baltazar wrote "Florante at Laura," which was a poem based on his personal circumstances regarding his love for Maria and the deception of another male suitor. Upon his release from prison in 1838, Baltazar published "Florante at Laura," and it was considered by many to be his best work.

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José Rizal (1861-1896) is one of the most revered figures in Philippine history. He was a multifaceted intellectual and a political activist, best known for his political writings that inspired the Philippine revolution and ultimately led to his execution by the Spanish colonizers.

Some qualities that would describe Jose Rizal are being open-minded, intelligent, and hardworking. Jose really wanted to have freedom in the Philippines from Spain, so that the Filipinos did not have to be controlled by another country. He did not care about himself. He cared more about helping his country

He has been instrumental in the Filipino's bid towards independence and several developments in various sectors. Rizal also made contributions to Philippine art, literature, and medicine, which continues to fascinate his countrymen today.

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Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, popularly known as Nick Joaquin, is a Filipino writer, historian and journalist known for writing short stories and novels in English after World War II. The son of a lawyer, Joaquin was born in Paco on Calle Herran. He quit high school to work on Manila's waterfront and in odd jobs. As a journalist, Joaquin used the pen name Quijano de Manila. He started as a proofreader at the Philippines Free Press, then rose to literary editor.

The following brief biographical essay of 1976 National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquín written by Resil Mojares (who himself became a National Artist for Literature in 2018) is the best delineation of my favorite writer that I've encountered so far Joaquin's source of inspiration was the Guerrero family, which he once described as "a mixture, a very uneasy blend, of religious conservatism and intellectual radicalism." He was well known as a historian of the brief Golden Age of Spain in the Philippines, as a writer of short stories suffused with folk Roman Catholicism, as a playwright, and as a novelist. Joaquin wrote his works in English. The novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels (1961) examines his country's various heritages. The prize-novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels examined the pressures of the past upon the present.

Joaquin used the pseudonym Quijano de Manila when he started writing for the magazine Philippine Free Press in 1950. “Quijano” is an anagram for his surname