Susan Currie is an elementary teacher of 27 years, with an MA in English Literature and an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory. Before becoming a teacher, she worked as a musician in such jobs as music director, accompanist, organist, choir director, dinner music performer, vocal coach and piano teacher.
Susan’s novels tend to centre on talented children in precarious situations who struggle not only to survive but to carve out a life of meaning. From a boy in a co-op who makes a deal with a lonely girl to give him piano lessons, to a Cayuga girl who doesn’t know her past but seeks it out via a path of musical magic realism that leads her and her mother to their true history, to a feisty foster child who gets into a prestigious music school by playing fast and loose with a few laws, Susan’s characters are resilient, determined, and fighting against systemic barriers to find their voices and speak their truths. When the path isn’t there, they hack a way through.
