Rebecca Podos
{{short description|American author of young adult fiction}}
{{Infobox writer
| 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
| website = {{url|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.{{Cite web|last=Chupeco|first=Rin|date=June 19, 2018|title=Agent Interview: Rebecca Podos from Rees Literary #SEACritterspub|url=https://www.rinchupeco.com/agent-interview-rebecca-podos-from-rees-literary-seacritterspub/}}
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. {{Cite news|url=https://www.slj.com/;?detailStory=book-review-like-water-by-rebecca-podos|title=Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos|work=School Library Journal|access-date=2018-11-11}} It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-0623-7334-2|title=Children's Book Review: The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-0623-7334-2|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2018-11-11|language=en}} The Mystery of Hollow Places received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rebecca-podos/the-mystery-of-hollow-places/|title=THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}}, Booklist,{{Cite book|url=https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Mystery-of-Hollow-Places-Rebecca-Podos/pid=7704897|title=Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos {{!}} Booklist Online|via=www.booklistonline.com|access-date=2018-11-11}} and Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.{{Cite journal|last=Stevenson|first=Deborah|date=2016-02-18|title=The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/609918|journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books|language=en|volume=69|issue=7|pages=372|doi=10.1353/bcc.2016.0241|s2cid=201759511|issn=1558-6766|url-access=subscription}}
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.{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rebecca-podos/like-water/|title=LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en-us}} It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2017 and won a Lambda Literary Award in 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/06/05/lambda-literary-award/|title=30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced|last=Team|first=Edit|date=2018-06-05|work=Lambda Literary|access-date=2018-11-11|language=en-US}}
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
Awards
2018
- Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Like Water
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women writers of young adult literature
Category:American writers of young adult literature
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners
Category:American LGBTQ writers