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.
[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.
[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.