Sex and Soul Redux: A Memoir of Salvation recounts the author’s struggle between the dictates of her religious upbringing and the call to be true to her own sense of self. The memoir traces her transition from good Catholic girl to an out and proud gay woman of faith. It affirms the worth of each person’s search to understand and claim their own authenticity.

“I grew up in a world where it seemed that all women were meant to marry, and it was expected that every girl wanted to be a bride. I wanted to be Roy Rogers.”

“Cristina can write. If you want to know about life, read this book.”

David Hayes
Tai Chi Instructor

“Ms. White’s memoir is illuminating and fascinating. Her courage in following her heart to find her own place in the world is inspirational. She shows how fundamentally alike all human beings are in their need for a meaningful life.”

Corinne Greve
Bibliophile

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These Several Women: Love Poems is a collection of poetry about love, desire, and memory.

The collection captures the wonder and beauty experienced when we fall in love; it also speaks to the ache that comes when love takes a turn we didn’t expect and everything falls to pieces. The work is inspired by a belief that love is the lifeblood of our existence here on earth—these poems sing that anthem.

“Cristina White’s poems…are hymns of honest gratitude for the memories of loves lost and the persistence of longing. In them, women who love women will surely recognize the sweet paradox of evanescent hope amidst her celebration of shining, small details.”

—Claire Goodman

Professor Media Arts

Long Island University

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One Cup of Rice is included in the anthology Youth in Wartime: Recollections of World War II. The book contains “…fourteen eyewitness accounts of life during World War II by young people from around the world…” and describes “…the lives of ordinary people caught in the maelstrom of global conflict.” Published by Cave Art Press. Print and eBook editions available at Amazon. Paperback available through your local bookstore.

Forgiveness, Creative Nonfiction in the Timberline Review, Volume 11, Transformation, August, 2022
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David, Creative Nonfiction in the online journal Discretionary Love, June 30, 2022
Tracing the rambling ways of a love story that outlasts a lifetime through poetry.
https://www.discretionarylove.com/david-cristina-white

Becoming Art Deco, Fiction in Occult Detective Magazine #8, January 5, 2022
At the entryway of a luxury hotel in South Beach, Florida, a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of a woman appears out of thin air. The architect contracted to design the newly-expanded areas of the hotel calls in Solas Bierman, a psychic investigator who specializes in art mysteries.

Aqua Blue Shoes, Flash Fiction in Pigeon Review, October 15, 2021
A big, bearded biker dressed all in black except for his aqua blue shoes. What’s right with this picture?
https://www.pigeonreview.com/post/aqua-blue-shoes

Transition, Prose poem in The Corvallis Advocate, December 19, 2019
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There, In Eternity, Poem on page six in Willawaw Journal Fall 2018-Issue 4
http://willawawjournal.com

Louise, Poem on page four in Willawaw Journal Summer 2017-Issue 1
http://willawawjournal.com

Doctor Snap, Flash Fiction in 2014 Gay Flash Fiction
Big-time therapy from a pint-size gal.
http://gayflashfiction.com

Directive, Poem in 2013 Summer VoiceCatcher
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Prince George County, Virginia Essay for The Place Where You Live, Orion Magazine, August 2010
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php.mag/issue/5604
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Ten years in the shadows was enough
Special to the Examiner, Gay Pride 2000, San Francisco Examiner, June 2000
PDF Excerpt available here

The Healing Environment (authored as Cristina Ismael) is a vision for the healing centers of the future, and a guide for utilizing elements such as color, light, sound and silence to aid the healing process.
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The True Source of Health
Essay from The Healing Environment for Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time Tea.
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The Enchanted Journey
A children’s play about a young prince who heeds a call for help and sets out alone on a dangerous journey to a faraway kingdom.
http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/9428/enchanted-journey-the
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Random Acts of Kindness
Essay for The Spirit of Corvallis
http://www.amazon.com/The-Spirit-of-Corvallis-John-Hope-Johnston/dp/1578644909

Walking to OSU, a photograph by Cristina White

Walking to OSU is one of Cristina’s photographs in The Spirit of Corvallis