Rebecca Podos is an American author of young adult fiction and adult fiction, and a literary agent.
Career Podos is a literary agent at Neighborhood Literary.
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.
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) 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)
Awards 2018
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult for Like Water
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