Christine Klocek-Lim grew up in northeast Pennsylvania, attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, and then worked as a technical writer in Manhattan before moving back to her home state. For the past two decades she’s resided in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. She is founder and editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY.

She received the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry. She has one young adult novel, Disintegrate, a sci-fi romance, Who Saw the Deep, and four poetry chapbooks: Ballroom – a love story, Cloud Studies – a sonnet sequence, How to photograph the heart, and The book of small treasures. Her full-length poetry collection, Dark Matter, was published by Aldrich Press in 2015.

She was an Acquiring Editor for Evernight Teen and Evernight Publishing from 2014 to 2019. She is the bestselling romance author Erin M. Leaf and Marie E. Blossom, and has written over sixty romance novels/novellas since 2010. Her email is: Christine.Klocek.Lim@gmail.com.

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Prizes:

Fiction:

• 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Evernight Readers’ Choice Award Winner, 2015 Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Swirl Award winner
• 2015 Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Swirl Award winner
• 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award semi-finalist for Who Saw the Deep

Poetry:

• 2015 – Full Moon Sillhouettes – nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press.
• 2011 – Coventina – nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Touch: The Journal of Healing.
• 2011 – Coventina, Jeremiel, Phoenix – Editor’s Choice in Touch: The Journal of Healing.
• 2011 – The book of small treasures – runner-up in the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award 2011, New England Poetry Club.
• 2011 – Dark matter manuscript – finalist in the Kenneth & Geraldine Gell Poetry Prize.
• 2010 –The unnamed – nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Touch: The Journal of Healing.
• 2010 – Star streams of the Splinter Galaxy – nominated for Best of the Net anthology 2009 by Diode.
• 2010 –Silence speaks – nominated for Best of the Net anthology 2009 by Holly Rose Review.
• 2010 – Dark matter manuscript – semi-finalist in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

• 2010 – Finalist for 3 Quarks Daily’s Prize in Arts & Literature for poem: How to photograph the heart
• 2009 – awarded the Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize (previously the Grolier prize) for six of her astronomy poems from her Dark matter manuscript. She was informed that: “. . .your submission was the unanimous choice of our judges. . .”
• 2009 – Dark matter manuscript – semi-finalist in the Sawtooth Poetry Prize.
• 2009 – Dark matter manuscript – semi-finalist in the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series.
• 2009 – Dark matter manuscript – semi-finalist in the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.
• 2009 – Unmended Daughter – nominated for Best of the Net anthology 2008 by Shit Creek Review.
• 2009 – Quantum Archives manuscript – semi-finalist in the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook competition.
• 2006 – Finalist for Nimrod‘s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.
• 2006 – “Commended Award” in the Margaret Reid Contest for Traditional Verse for her poem, ”Tonight I walked into the sunset”. This poem was also featured in MiPOradio’s The Countdown, Episode 15.
• March 2005 – “Featured Poet-of-the-Quarter” – the Aurorean showcased her work as its  and in 2004 Inside Out, a poetry anthology, featured her photos and poetry.

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Poet in Residence:

• Craft — Touch: The Journal of Healing, 2012-2013
• Experience — Touch: The Journal of Healing, 2012-2013
• Intent — Touch: The Journal of Healing, 2012-2013

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Interviews:

• Interview at Author Island – Who Saw the Deep
• Interview at Upper Rubber Boot: Christine Klocek-Lim, author of Disintegrate
• Interview at couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour, Joanne Merriam, it requires practice, a lot of it, April 9, 2012
• Ten Questions for Christine Klocek-Lim, An interview with g emil reutter, Fox Chase reading series
•  Ten Questions for Poetry Editors-Christine Klocek-Lim, interview by Nic Sebastian
•  A feature article about Poem Sparks, Christine’s poetry prompts, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.

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Published Poetry:

2019

• CatOber 2019: Cats, a Catbird, and the World – Escape Into Life, October 2019
• Mother’s Day 2019 – Escape Into Life, May 2019
• Heart to Heart: Love Poems – Escape Into Life, February 2019

2018

• National Poetry Month Feature – Escape Into Life, April 2018
• Ars Poetica: Poems on Poetry 2018 – Escape Into Life, April 2018
• Mother’s Day 2018 – Escape Into Life, May 2018
• Father’s Day 2018 – Escape Into Life, June 2018

2017

• There Is Dust in the Universe, But I Have Never Seen It – Nautilus — Cosmos, February 2017
• Emma, Fritz, Loretta – Tell-Tale Inklings #3, Autumn 2017

2016

• The Stars Are a Comforting Constant – Nautilus — Cosmos, November/December 2016
• Sweet Bread, 3 Quarks Daily, August 28, 2016

2015

• The elusive Jellyfish Nebula, 3 Quarks Daily, September 30, 2015
• The view near a black hole, E-Verse Radio, October 2015

2014

• Cipher, Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place – Sundress Publications April 2014
• Despina, moon of Neptune, WMNR The Night Cafe w Bill Duchon, October 3, 2014

2012

• The Oakland Review, Alumni Edition IV, 2012
• Strong Voices—A Year of Touch: The Journal of Healing, March 2012
• Diode, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2012
• Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 10, May 2012
• Fox Chase Review, Summer 2012
• Everyday Poems, July 10, 2012
• WMNR The Night Cafe w Bill Duchon, September 7, 2012
• Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 11, September 2012
• Ginosko #12, November 2012 (pdf)

2011

• Touch: The Journal of Healing, Issue 8, September 2011 
• Astropoetica, Volume 9.2, Summer 2011
• Victorian Violet Press, Issue 7, Summer 2011
• Astropoetica, Volume 9.1, Winter 2011