For twelve years Terri-Ann White was an independent bookseller, as owner and manager of the Arcane Bookshop in Perth. She taught writing in Perth universities between 1990 and 1999 and has offered writing workshops in the community. White directs the cross-disciplinary Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her stories and writing have been published widely and evidence her passionate collaboration with other artists - dancers, visual artists and musicians. In 1994 White compiled and co-wrote Stories From Our Lives : women's experiences of abortion with Linda Savage. She also edited an issue of the international journal Salt in 2002 on memory writing.