Rebecca Podos

Rebecca Podos is an American author of young adult fiction, best known for her Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Like Water.

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

Selected works

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. [1] It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2016.[2] The Mystery of Hollow Places received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews[3], Booklist,[4] and Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.[5]

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.[6] It was published by Balzer + Bray in 2017 and won a Lambda Literary Award in 2018.[7]

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)
  • The Dust Alphabet (Balzer + Bray, 2021)

Short fiction

  • "The Fourth" in Glimmer Train Stories #84, edited by Susan Burmeister-Brown and Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Glimmer Train Press, 2012)[7]

Awards

2018

References
  1. "Book Review: Like Water by Rebecca Podos". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  2. "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.
  3. THE MYSTERY OF HOLLOW PLACES by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  4. "Mystery of Hollow Places, by Rebecca Podos | Booklist Online". www.booklistonline.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  5. Stevenson, Deborah (2016-02-18). "The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 69 (7): 372–372. doi:10.1353/bcc.2016.0241. ISSN 1558-6766.
  6. LIKE WATER by Rebecca Podos | Kirkus Reviews.
  7. Team, Edit (2018-06-05). "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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