Arline Golden was a tenured English professor at SUNY, College at Buffalo, and on the faculty of the Sloan School of Management, MIT.  She received her BA with honors at the University of Wisconsin and her M.A. and Ph.D at Indiana University, where she met and married her husband, Dan Golden.  

After leaving academia, she worked as an editor at Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, and served corporate and medical clients as President of her own consulting company, Goldenwords Management Communications.  Arline and Dan moved to CA from Boston in 2007.