Currie was raised and still lives in Waterville, Maine. He attended Clemson University and withdrew before graduation. Currie's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Sun, Other Voices, The Nervous Breakdown, and Night Train. Currie's first book, God is Dead, was published to critical acclaim in 2007, earning Currie comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver. God is Dead received the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, as well as the Metcalf award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
