Melissa J. White is an award-winning writer and designer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her narrative nonfiction 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. She is the author of DIZZY SUSHI (Tres Chicas Books, 2013).