Biography[edit]

White was born in 1979 in Inkersall near Chesterfield in Derbyshire.^[1] She graduated with a degree in English literature from Leicester University and worked in magazine publishing in London before moving to New York City in 2012. She was editor of Life & Style and then, at the end of 2013, became editor-in-chief of Time Out New York.^[2]


In 2015, she returned to London when offered the post of editor of Empire magazine.^[3] While she had been pursuing a successful career in New York, White had turned to alcohol and prescription drugs and spent a week in a psychiatric ward. She described how her life unravelled in New York in a 2020 memoir, Coming Undone, which also contained details of poverty and abuse in childhood.^[4]


In September 2021, White resigned from her post at Empire as the long hours were incompatible with her role as a new mother.^[5] Since then she has worked as a freelance journalist.