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Christie recently completed her debut Middle Grade children's novel and the text for a children's picture book under the pen name Christie Miranda. Meanwhile, she is busy working on an adult fact-informed fictional drama featuring a feisty social worker - with more adult and children's novels plotted and raring to go. In 2012, Christie self-published her debut novel Leave The Wake Behind with accompanying CD of 12 original songs. A story of love and loss and self-transformation with supernatural themes. It is currently available for loan through library services in Victoria. While studying a five year social work degree with honours, at RMIT University from 2013-2018, he won first prize for the short story Sand And Locusts - published in the Melbourne Writers Social Group Anthology 2019 and available to read online through the World Writers Collective Christie Heart | free-stories (worldwriterscollective.com) In 2015, while on social work placement at NGO Project Respect, Christie rewrote and edited a pocket version of a a research project The Manual: An informative guide for women considering entering the sex industry, was first published in 2010 and translated into Korean and distributed to Korean sex workers by the Salem Foundation, in 2011. Christie has contributed short stories and poetry to several publications across the years. |
