awards

2014 Guest Author for Cantilevers: Journal of the Arts
2013 Grand Prize Winner of Origami Zoo Press's Tweet-Sized Fairy Tale Contest
2013 Winner of Figment.com's "Find Your Inner Strength: The Sweetest Dark Flash" contest for "Here Is a Heart"
2013 Winner of Figment.com's "Time Between Us" contest for "Afternoon at Noodledom Palace"
2012 Winner of Figment.com's "Probability of Miracles" contest for "Skeleton Friend"
2011 Winner of Figment.com's "Let Them Eat Figs" contest for "The Princess & Her Shadow"
2011 Winner of Figment.com's "Serial Contest" for Flour House
2011 Runner Up of Figment.com's "New Years" contest for "Disappear"
2010 Wesley Ryals Award in Fiction
2009 Student Writing Award in Fiction
2007 First Place in Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Award
2007 Runner Up in TOKYOPOP's Alex Unlimited Contest

interviews

March 2016. "Talking about Success, Love, and Whimsy with Kimberly Karalius" by Margaryta Golovchenko from the University of Toronto's genre journal, The Spectatorial.
November 2015. "Kimberly Karalius: Swoon Reads Author" by Zoie from Zoie's Bookshelf.
October 2015. "Festival of Reading: Local YA authors on writing, Twitter as virtual 'employee lounge'" by Sharon Kennedy Wynne published in the Tampa Bay Times.
October 2015. "Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading - Kimberly Karalius and Phillippe Diederich" aired on WUF 89.7, University Beat.
April 2015. "It's a Small World After All: Kim and Karole's Meet-Cute" at the Swoon Says blog.
April 2015. "Dazzling Debuts 2015: LOVE FORTUNES & OTHER DISASTERS By Kimberly Karalius (Interview + Giveaway)" by Kyla from Book Buddies PH.
January 2015. "Episode 46: A Swoon Reads Author" podcast by Jane from Doing It By the Book.
February 2014. "Fav Five Friday #1 + Blogger of the Week" by Namie of Good Morning Lovely.
November 2013. "Quick Five with Kimberly Karalius" by Tania Lasenburg of Motifink.
February 2013. "Our Writers: Kimberly Karalius" by White Ash Literary Magazine.
October 2011. "The Friday Fig: Kimberly Karalius" by Anande Sjoden on her blog, Honey and Snow.
July 2011. "The Magical (Serialized) Imagination of Kimberly Karalius" by LiAnn Yim on her blog (aka the amazing Linna Lee on Figment).

*header photo by Regina Rached