She is the author of four poetry collections, The Patient Presents (2000), Late (2005), Living in the Heart (2006), Toxic Environment (2008), and four chapbooks. She was the recipient of a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant in poetry. Dr. White is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School. She was a member of Philadelphia's Germantown Quaker Meeting and praticed pediatrics at a community health center in the inner city for more than twenty-five years before returning to Gilford, New Hampshire, where she grew up.