Carlinda D’Alimonte grew up in Amherstburg and has lived in the Windsor area most of her life. She was Head of English at Walkerville Collegiate Institute, where she taught English and Creative Writing. Prior to her teaching career, she worked for CBC television in Windsor researching and writing for a current affairs program, and for the University of Windsor where she wrote and produced instructional and promotional works in a variety of media. D’Alimonte has been writing poetry since she was 13. Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies and in Contemporary Verse 2 and The Windsor Review. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Now That We Know Who We Are, Other Living Things, and Morning Song, and she contributed nine poems to the anthology Because We Have All Lived Here: Poems Along the South Shore.