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.
Rebecca Podos | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Emerson College, College of Santa Fe |
| Genre | young adult fiction |
| Years active | 2012-now |
| Notable works | Like Water |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award 2018 |
| Website | |
| rebeccapodos | |
Career edit
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 edit
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)[8]
Awards edit
2018
- Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Like Water[8]
References edit
- ^ Chupeco, Rin (June 19, 2018). "Agent Interview: Rebecca Podos from Rees Literary #SEACritterspub".
- ^ "Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ "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.
- ^ THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos | Booklist Online. Retrieved 2018-11-11 – via www.booklistonline.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ a b c Team, Edit (2018-06-05). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-11.