About Melissa J White

Melissa J. White is an award-winning writer and designer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her narrative non-fiction essays, interviews, poetry and short fiction have been published in Whole Earth Review, THE Magazine, Indian Artist Magazine, the Santa Fe Reporter, Crosswinds, Fish Drum and Noctiluca—an English language magazine from Japan—among others. Her book DIZZY SUSHI, based on a year teaching English conversation in Japan, won a Recursos de Santa Fe Discovery prize. She is also the recipient of the Henry Austin Prize for Poetry and the Santa Fe New Mexican’s Holiday Writing contest. She is a graduate of the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive and in 2008, she was a 1st place winner at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF). She has studied screenwriting with Kirk Ellis (”John Adams”, HBO) and Tom Musca (”Little Nikita”, “Stand and Deliver.”)

As the owner of Whitespace Creative, LLC in Santa Fe, she develops sustainable marketing and media plans as well as full advertising creative and branding platforms for clients in the arts, and sustainable businesses including Recycle Runway, High Country Gardens, i.e. architecture, Milagro Compost, Spirit of the Garden, Ethnosphere Music Lab and others. She has won Addys® for her design work for Nancy Youngblood, the Santa Fe Opera and Tall Grass Restoration.