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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 |
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Rebecca Podos is an American author of young adult fiction and adult fiction, and a literary agent.
Career
[edit]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]
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)
- Furious (Page Street, 2024)
- Homegrown Magic (Del Rey, 2025)
- What If...Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? (Random House Worlds, 2025)
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]- ↑ "About". Neighborhood Literary.
- ↑ "Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos". School Library Journal. Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ↑ "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. Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ↑ "THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ↑ "Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos". Booklist Online. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ↑ Stevenson, Deborah (February 18, 2016). "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. Archived from the original on November 12, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ↑ "LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- 1 2 3 "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary (Press release). June 5, 2018. Archived from the original on October 7, 2018. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
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