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As a kid, Currie loved ace-ing her spelling test and reading the dictionary. Her first stories were typed into a Commodore 64 and printed on a dot matrix printer, others were written and drawn on mini books - specially folded pieces of paper that could fit in her pocket. In grade 4, the class unit on poetry blew. her. mind! Miranda’s relationship with words continued to grow as she discovered that poetry + melody = songs, like the ones she heard on the radio. Writing was a way to express her thoughts and feelings – of which she had a lot!
After suffering a traumatic brain injury in 2011, that affected her ability to read and write as well as walk and talk, Miranda began to make stories in her head while lying in bed for 18 hours a day. To challenge herself she made them rhyme. In 2013, she was able to pen a spoken word poem about her negative experiences dealing with income assistance. It was read by her MLA in the NWT legislative assembly and later that week on CBC’s As it Happens. Later that year she released her first children’s book Anna and the Bear.
Returning to part time work in 2016, Miranda noticed how settler teachers sometimes struggled to integrate indigenous language in their teaching practice. She knew she could help, so in partnership with the Yellowknife Catholic School Board she wrote Sadee’s Mittens. A story about making a pair of traditional beaver mittens, Sadee’s Mittens is written in English with ten Wiilideh vocabulary words that appear throughout the book.
Miranda still loves alliteration, internal rhymes and the consistent meter of sentences with the same number of syllables. She writes songs, books, films, plays and poems and still loves the feeling of cracking open a new blank journal.
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