about me

Kimberly Karalius is the author of Love Fortunes and Other Disasters and its sequel Love Charms and Other Catastrophes. If you gave her a wish bone, she would wish fervently for snow in Florida. Living in Florida certainly has one big perk: going to Disney World. Which she does. Frequently. 

Kimberly holds an MFA in fiction from the University of South Florida. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Luna Station Quarterly, The Medulla Review, and Hogglepot. Her chapbook, Pocket Forest, was published by Deathless Press in August 2013.

She is represented by Bethany Weaver of Weaver Literary Agency.

fun facts about kim: 

What do I do for fun? theme parking (both Disney and Universal, collaging, antiquing, finding anything weird and whimsical I can reach on a tank of gas.

Favorite Authors: Patricia A. McKillip, Mervyn Peake, Francesca Lia Block, Tanith Lee, Sharon Shinn, F.L. Wallace.

Favorite Movies: Amelie, This Beautiful Fantastic, Only You, Penelope, The Grand Budapest Hotel, A Little Princess, The Fall, The City of Lost Children, Labyrinth, Thumbelina, Dark City, Howl’s Moving Castle, Napoleon Dynamite, anything with Buster Keaton.

Favorite Musical Artists: Lenka, Tele Novella, Carol Cleveland Sings, Autoheart, Eisley, Mindy Gledhill, Owl City, Bradley Thomas Turner, The Hush Sound, Sea Wolf, Oskar Schuster, Jenny Owen Youngs, A Fine Frenzy, Caravan Palace.

Video Games I’m Playing Now: Fields of Mistria, Whisper of the House, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, and working through a backlog of Sonic the Hedgehog games.

Favorite TV Shows: Pushing Daisies, Gotham, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Darkplace, Loki, and anything Supermarionation (like Thunderbirds and Stingray).