Cadwell Turnbull is a graduate from the North Carolina State University's Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. He was the winner of the 2014 NCSU Prize for Short Fiction and attended Clarion West 2016. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Asimov's Science Fiction. His Asimov's short story "When the Rains Come Back" made Barnes and Noble's Sci-Fi & Fantasy's Short Fiction Roundup in April 2018. His Nightmare story "Loneliness Is in Your Blood" was selected for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. His Asimov's novelette "Other Worlds and This One" was also selected by the anthology as a notable story. The Lesson is his debut novel.
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Convergence Saga
1. No Gods, No Monsters (2021)
2. We Are the Crisis (2023)
3. A Ruin, Great and Free (2025)
1. No Gods, No Monsters (2021)
2. We Are the Crisis (2023)
3. A Ruin, Great and Free (2025)
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Cadwell Turnbull recommends

The Villa, Once Beloved (2025)
Victor Manibo
"Manibo has penned a gothic family saga about the price of privilege - biting and raw, with an ensemble cast at odds with each other and themselves. And beneath this very real, immaculately-rendered drama, a simmering dread: dark secrets threatening to emerge, along with something much worse. The Villa, Once Beloved is a magnificent terror."

Storyteller (2025)
Carina Bissett, Julie C Day and Craig Laurance Gidney
"Every tale in Storyteller is a gem - lush, dreamy, delicately strange. Together, they make a compelling argument: Tanith Lee should be on every shelf, writer and reader alike."

The Canopy Keepers (2024)
(Scorched Earth , book 1)
Veronica G Henry
"Perfectly balanced between the fantastical and sharp reality, The Canopy Keepers is a genre-defying work as prescient as it is brilliant. Henry has written yet another extraordinary novel everyone should be reading."
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