CG Drews is the author of the award-winning The Boy Who Steals Houses and the NYT and Indie Best Seller Don't Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick, and one of School Library Journal's Best Books of 2024. Their work has been translated into eight 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.