Cristina Luisa White has had two dedicated interests for most of her life—the performance arts and the healing arts. Her interest in the healing arts led her to write her first book, The Healing Environment (authored as Cristina Ismael). This pioneering work in the field of healing design is about the ways both the natural and built environment can aid the healing process.
She began as a playwright and has several produced plays and two published plays to her credit. Her children’s play, The Enchanted Journey, published by Samuel French, has been produced throughout the United States and Canada.
At age 15, she was given her first guitar. She spent some years as a singer/songwriter with the duo Moon in Taurus. Songwriting is now a regular part of her writing life.
In 2022, Cristina’s nonfiction contribution “Forgiveness” in the Timberline Review Issue 11 earned her a nomination for the Pushcart Prize, an American literary award. She was a featured writer at the 2020 and 2018 Literary Arts Oregon Writers of Color Spring Showcase, and her work has appeared in several publications, including Orion Magazine, Timberline Review, Discretionary Love, Pigeon Review, and Viridine Literary.
Her currently available books are Sex and Soul Redux: A Memoir of Salvation and These Several Women: Love Poems. Also available from Cave Art Press is the anthology Youth in Wartime: Recollections of World War II. The anthology includes “One Cup of Rice,” Cristina’s account of being with her mother in the Philippines during Japan’s harsh wartime occupation of the islands.
In addition to Write Away, her blog on this site, Cristina writes at zen crunch, her blog at www.cristinawhite.wordpress.com.
