Marian Frances White has spent her creative life telling women’s stories as an author, filmmaker, poet, biographer and journalist. Perhaps White’s most feminist act was producing a women’s newspaper, Waterlily, and publishing ten editions of A Woman’s Almanac.

The author of numerous books, Marian is also the recipient of ArtsNL’s Artist of the Year award and in 2023 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Circle of Distinction Award by the YWCA.

White’s young adult History of Newfoundland and Labrador was translated into French and used in school curriculum. In 2019 White’s Island Vegan cookbook won the World Gourmand Cookbook Award for local are. Her award-winning films include The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland and the dramatic documentary, Stealing Mary: Last of the Red Indians that explores the demise of the Beothuk people. Tricksters takes viewers to northern Innuit communities in Labrador; Circus by Komatik follows Inuit children as they create a show with Wonderbolt Circus. Sights Before Christmas, a children’s book co-authored with her partner, Beni Malone, was made into a liveaction TV special.