Rebecca Podos

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.

Career
Podos is a literary agent at Rees Literary Agency.

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

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

Awards
2018


 * Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Like Water