CG Drews

NYT Bestselling & Award-Winning Horror Author

CG Drews is the award-winning author ofThe Boy Who Steals Houses and NYT Bestseller Don’t Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, and Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick. Their next YA horror, Hazelthorn, will follow in 2025, with debut adult horror, You Did Nothing wrong, coming in 2026. Their work has been translated into 13 languages, received a nomination for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. CG lives in Australia, never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books.

YA Gothic Horror (October 28, 2025)

YA Dark Academia Horror

Adult Psychological Horror (Mar 17, 2026)

Buy My Books

  • “...fantastical read; prepare for the emotional roller coaster...”

    Booklist (starred review)

    Don’t Let The Forest In

  • “...rich, extravagant prose”

    KIRKUS reviews

    Don’t Let The Forest In

  • “Visceral, haunting, and blisteringly raw, You Did Nothing Wrong is a masterpiece of a gothic thriller"

    Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author

    You Did Nothing Wrong

  • “Viscerally atmospheric and beautifully eerie"

    Pascale Lacelle, NYT Bestselling author

    Hazelthorn

  • "a beautiful, horrific novel out of underbrush and ink stains and blood"

    Andrew Joseph White, NYTimes bestselling author

    Don’t Let The Forest In

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weekly meme dump >>> idk i just think the reader logic is sound. any new books on your tbr?? i really want to get the god of the woods and the bog wife so maybe i just might. am currently doing copyedits for Hazelthorn (coming october 2025)

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