Bio
Music professor (and orchestral chamber musician) Joanna White has poems or creative nonfiction in JAMA (The Poetry and Medicine Column of the Journal of the American Medical Association), The Examined Life Journal, Ars Medica, Healing Muse, The MacGuffin, Measure, Dunes Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Earth’s Daughters, Pulse, Temenos, West Texas Literary Review, Intima, Naugatuck River Review (as a poetry contest finalist), the American Journal of Nursing, The Shore, and Cherry Tree among others. Her short and long poetry collections have reached book contest finals or semi-finals multiple times and she has a first poetry collection due out in 2025.
While her writing covers a range of topics, forms, and styles, it often falls under the purview of medical humanities. She explores themes of childhood medical terror, the need to be heard, the struggle to speak up, resilience, and the importance of voice in the forging of intimate connections between people. She tells us what it is like for a professional musician to have focal dystonia, a malady in which brain signals are corrupted, making the once-natural ability to play a musical instrument as illusive, as disorienting, as writing with your non-dominant hand. She is thrilled about a forthcoming artist residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois for a creative nonfiction exploration of her experience overcoming focal dystonia.
Joanna White, who studied poetry with Robert Fanning and Jeffrey Bean and fiction with Darrin Doyle, has read or presented around the country at many universities, at the Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, the Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and she was a 2021 Association of Writers and Writing Programs panelist on the topic of Cross Art Collaboration. White is an external reader for Medical Literary Messenger, the medical humanities journal of Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to a doctorate in music, White has a master's degree in English Language and Literature with a creative writing emphasis from Central Michigan University. She has a son in Michigan and a daughter and son-in-law in Chicago.
As a flutist, Joanna White records for Centaur Records, White Pine Music, and Blue Griffin, including a Powers Woodwind Quintet recording of works with narration, and has performed in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Washington D.C. England, Italy, Japan, and more. She writes articles for music journals and is a reviewer for Flutist Quarterly, the Journal of the National Flute Association. She has recently been combining music and poetry, presenting them together around the United States, and can be heard with her clarinetist husband Kennen White (Crescent Duo) on recordings, including the Centaur Records compact disc, Poet as Muse: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Voice.
CONTACT Joanna White
[email protected]
Link to music website: Joannawhiteflute.com
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While her writing covers a range of topics, forms, and styles, it often falls under the purview of medical humanities. She explores themes of childhood medical terror, the need to be heard, the struggle to speak up, resilience, and the importance of voice in the forging of intimate connections between people. She tells us what it is like for a professional musician to have focal dystonia, a malady in which brain signals are corrupted, making the once-natural ability to play a musical instrument as illusive, as disorienting, as writing with your non-dominant hand. She is thrilled about a forthcoming artist residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois for a creative nonfiction exploration of her experience overcoming focal dystonia.
Joanna White, who studied poetry with Robert Fanning and Jeffrey Bean and fiction with Darrin Doyle, has read or presented around the country at many universities, at the Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, the Examined Life Conference at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and she was a 2021 Association of Writers and Writing Programs panelist on the topic of Cross Art Collaboration. White is an external reader for Medical Literary Messenger, the medical humanities journal of Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to a doctorate in music, White has a master's degree in English Language and Literature with a creative writing emphasis from Central Michigan University. She has a son in Michigan and a daughter and son-in-law in Chicago.
As a flutist, Joanna White records for Centaur Records, White Pine Music, and Blue Griffin, including a Powers Woodwind Quintet recording of works with narration, and has performed in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Washington D.C. England, Italy, Japan, and more. She writes articles for music journals and is a reviewer for Flutist Quarterly, the Journal of the National Flute Association. She has recently been combining music and poetry, presenting them together around the United States, and can be heard with her clarinetist husband Kennen White (Crescent Duo) on recordings, including the Centaur Records compact disc, Poet as Muse: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Voice.
CONTACT Joanna White
[email protected]
Link to music website: Joannawhiteflute.com
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