Rebecca Podos
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Rebecca Podos | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Emerson College, College of Santa Fe |
| Genre | young adult fiction, adult fiction |
| Years active | 2012-now |
| Notable works | Like Water |
| Notable awards | Lambda Literary Award 2018 |
| Website | |
| rebeccapodos | |
Rebecca Podos is an American author of young adult fiction and adult fiction, and a literary agent.
Podos is a literary agent at Neighborhood Literary.[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]
