Rebecca Podos is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of YA novels, including The Mystery of Hollow Places; Like Water; The Wise and the Wicked; From Dust, a Flame; and Furious. Her adult novels include Homegrown Magic; What if… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force?; and Homeward for a Spell, out now. She is also co-editor of the YA anthology Fools in Love, and her stories have been featured in the anthologies At Midnight and This is How We Roll.

By day, Rebecca is Managing Partner at Neighborhood Literary. She serves as a co-director of the Communications and Fundraising Committee for Literary Agents of Change, and on the Board of Directors for QT Library, a nonprofit, queer and trans lending library based in Boston.