Rebecca Podos Explained
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | Emerson College, College of Santa Fe |
| Genre: | young adult fiction |
| Notableworks: | Like Water |
| Awards: | Lambda Literary Award 2018 |
| Years Active: | 2012-now |
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.[1]
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. [2] It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2016.[3] The Mystery of Hollow Places received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews[4] , Booklist,[5] and Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.[6]
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.[7] It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2017 and won a Lambda Literary Award in 2018.[8]
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
- Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Like Water
Notes and References
- Web site: Chupeco. Rin. June 19, 2018. Agent Interview: Rebecca Podos from Rees Literary #SEACritterspub.
- News: Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos. School Library Journal. 2018-11-11.
- News: 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. 2018-11-11. en.
- Book: THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos Kirkus Reviews. en-us.
- Book: Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos Booklist Online. www.booklistonline.com. 2018-11-11.
- Stevenson. Deborah. 2016-02-18. The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (review). Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. en. 69. 7. 372. 10.1353/bcc.2016.0241. 201759511. 1558-6766.
- Book: LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos Kirkus Reviews. en-us.
- News: 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced. Team. Edit. 2018-06-05. Lambda Literary. 2018-11-11. en-US.
