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Superflow: Light Up the Artist in You
Everyone is born with the gift of creativity. The SUPERFLOW approach, consisting of ten refreshingly compact limbs, is a gateway to unclenching your creative muscles, igniting the fires of self-expression, and seeing what beautiful looks like for you.
116 pages, Paperback
Published June 29, 2021
About the author
Susan Currie
10 books7 followersSusan Currie is an elementary teacher of 26 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 is also an adoptee who was in foster care in her earliest life. When she grew up, she went looking for her birth family and learned the amazing fact that her mother’s side of the family is Haudenosaunee—from the Cayuga Nation, and the Turtle Clan. She learned about the rich history and culture of the Cayuga, about her family roots at the Six Nations of the Grand River, and also about the devastating role that residential school (the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario) played in creating the inherited trauma that runs through her biological family. This knowledge, although it contained dark aspects, was a source of tremendous joy for her. Finally, for the first time, she felt like she cast a shadow.
Susan’s novels include: Basket of Beethoven (2001, Fitzhenry & Whiteside); The Mask that Sang (2016, Second Story Press); Iz the Apocalypse (2023, Common Deer Press), and Fierce Voice (Common Deer Press, Fall 2025). She has also written three nonfiction books for Saunders Publishing: Haudenosaunee: the People and Nations (2024), Amazing Women in Canada: Autumn Peltier (2024) and Indigenous Peoples: Cayuga (Fall 2025). Her novels have been finalists for the Ontario Silver Birch Award, the Hackmatack Award, the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award, the CODE Burt Award, the Ontario Library Association White Pine Award, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, and the Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year. Her books have also been included in many “best of” lists.
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.
Susan is also an adoptee who was in foster care in her earliest life. When she grew up, she went looking for her birth family and learned the amazing fact that her mother’s side of the family is Haudenosaunee—from the Cayuga Nation, and the Turtle Clan. She learned about the rich history and culture of the Cayuga, about her family roots at the Six Nations of the Grand River, and also about the devastating role that residential school (the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ontario) played in creating the inherited trauma that runs through her biological family. This knowledge, although it contained dark aspects, was a source of tremendous joy for her. Finally, for the first time, she felt like she cast a shadow.
Susan’s novels include: Basket of Beethoven (2001, Fitzhenry & Whiteside); The Mask that Sang (2016, Second Story Press); Iz the Apocalypse (2023, Common Deer Press), and Fierce Voice (Common Deer Press, Fall 2025). She has also written three nonfiction books for Saunders Publishing: Haudenosaunee: the People and Nations (2024), Amazing Women in Canada: Autumn Peltier (2024) and Indigenous Peoples: Cayuga (Fall 2025). Her novels have been finalists for the Ontario Silver Birch Award, the Hackmatack Award, the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award, the CODE Burt Award, the Ontario Library Association White Pine Award, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, and the Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year. Her books have also been included in many “best of” lists.
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.
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