Author Spotlight: Marrio C. Mathews, author of “Dream No More: Rise of a Lion”

Marrio C. Mathews was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is one of six siblings in the bayou country of New Orleans, and grew up “below the poverty line” as he likes to describe his upbringing.

Since middle school, he has completed several writing projects; however, none of which was published. Mathews survived an already difficult world with the help of his mother, aunt, grandmother and various father figures, though he was still challenged later on with the strike of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After he and his family moved to Texas as Hurricane Katrina Survivors, he vowed to turn his writings into a professional business venture.

Once he moved to Seattle, Washington, he spent the first year of his life as a City-Year Seattle/King County AmeriCorps member. He would then hold two different jobs, attend Seattle Central Community College, and work on the Seattle Central Community College Leadership Board as the Executive of Communications while maintaining a scholarship. After gaining employment at a tech company, he developed the current iteration of Dream No More: Rise of a Lion – Book 1 and Book 2.