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December 19, 2022 48 mins

Matthew Dawkins is a Jamaican award-winning author and poet whose work explores subject matters including adolescence, race, nationhood, and mental health. Until We Break is his debut novel.

Matthew is currently the Student-Writer-in-Residence at Western University where he also pursues a Bachelor’s of Arts in The School for Advanced Studies in Arts and Humanities and English Literature.

Matthew’s work has been featured in Symposium, Indolent Books, Pinhole Poetry, and more. When he's not writing, Matthew can often be found re-watching the Harry Potter series for the millionth time and procrastinating his assignments. 

Links: 
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/matthewd_writes/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/matthewd_writes 

As Quill and Quire explains:

"Watty Award–winning author and poet Matthew Dawkins has achieved more than 400,000 reads on Wattpad. This month, he releases his YA debut Until We Break (Wattpad Books), which follows Naomi Morgan as she re-examines her relationship with ballet after a serious injury forces her to stop practising. She befriends Saint, a street artist, who shows her a different approach to art."

'Until We Break' is available everywhere books are sold.

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