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American author of young adult fiction
Rebecca Podos
NationalityAmerican
Alma materEmerson College, College of Santa Fe
Genreyoung adult fiction
Years active2012-now
Notable worksLike Water
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award 2018
Website
rebeccapodos.com

Rebecca Podos is an American author of young adult fiction and a literary agent, best known for her Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Like Water.

Career

Podos is a literary agent at Rees Literary Agency.

Her debut young adult novel, The Mystery of Hollow Places, is a thriller about a 17-year-old teen whose father, a best-selling mystery author, goes missing. Deciding that her father has gone to track down her mother, who abandoned them when she was a baby, she follows the clues she believes her father left behind in order to find them both. It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2016. The Mystery of Hollow Places received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

Podos' second novel, Like Water, is about a bisexual Mexican-American teen who becomes a performing mermaid in a theme park, where she meets and falls for a genderqueer teen. It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2017 and won a Lambda Literary Award in 2018.

Bibliography

Young Adult novels

  • The Mystery of Hollow Places (Balzer + Bray, 2016)
  • Like Water (Balzer + Bray, 2017)
  • The Wise and the Wicked (Balzer + Bray, 2019)
  • From Dust, a Flame (Balzer + Bray, 2022)

Short fiction

  • "The Fourth" in Glimmer Train Stories #84, edited by Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Glimmer Train Press, 2012)

Awards

2018

References

  1. Chupeco, Rin (June 19, 2018). "Agent Interview: Rebecca Podos from Rees Literary #SEACritterspub".
  2. "Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. "Children's Book Review: The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-0623-7334-2". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  4. THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  5. Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos | Booklist Online. Retrieved 2018-11-11 – via www.booklistonline.com.
  6. Stevenson, Deborah (2016-02-18). "The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 69 (7): 372. doi:10.1353/bcc.2016.0241. ISSN 1558-6766. S2CID 201759511.
  7. LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  8. ^ Team, Edit (2018-06-05). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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