arlinda grew up in Amerherstburg and has lived in Windsor for her entire life. She lives in Tecumseh, Ontario with her husband and two daughters.

She is Head of English at Walkerville Collegiate Institute, which offers an arts-based high school program to students in the Windsor-Essex County area. She teaches English and Creative Writing.

She has organized regular readings and clinics given by visiting writers. She has been involved in many educational initiatives, most recently co-authoring and teaching a new online distance learning course in Grade 12 English.

She holds a B.A., B. Ed., and M.A. from the University of Windsor. Her undergraduate work has been in English and Communication Studies, and her graduate work is in Communications.

Prior to her teaching career she worked for CBC television in Windsor researching and writing for a current affairs program for one year.

Prior to that she worked for the University of Windsor for eight years where she wrote and produced instructional and promotional works in a variety of media, including video, film, sound, photographic, and print media. During this time she developed an acute feel for visual, audio, and print communications. She was also a Sessional Instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Windsor during that time.

Over the years, she has been a regular contributor to the arts pages of the Windsor Star.

She has been writing poetry since she was thirteen, but it has been in the last five years that she has gone public with her writing, devoting more time to it and consciously honing her poetry.

She has completed the one-week summer writer's workshop at Humber College in Toronto and has completed workshops with Marty Gervais, John B. Lee, and Marilyn Dumont.

Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and in The Windsor Review. She has read for a lunch-time Literary Quickie Series put on by the University of Windsor English Department.