Rebecca Podos

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Rebecca Podos
NationalityAmerican
Alma materEmerson College, College of Santa Fe
Genre young adult fiction
Years active2012-now
Notable worksLike Water
Notable awardsLambda Literary Award 2018
Website
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 .

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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

Short fiction

Awards

2018

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References

  1. ↑ Chupeco, Rin (June 19, 2018). "Agent Interview: Rebecca Podos from Rees Literary #SEACritterspub".
  2. ↑ "Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  5. ↑ Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos | Booklist Online . Retrieved 2018-11-11– via www.booklistonline.com.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  8. 1 2 3 Team, Edit (2018-06-05). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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