worked on a variety of projects including for TV and radio. He worked as an editor for the Ecuadorean newspapers Hoy, El Comercio, and La Hora. He also taught classes and workshops at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, and other institutions. He published his novels Confesiones nocturnas and Triángulos mágicos in Mexico in 1994. That year he also began to work for the Ecuadorian national TV channel Ecuavisa, for which he co-wrote with Serret the miniseries El Chulla Romero y Flores (1995), 7 lunas, 7 serpientes (1996), and Solo de guitarra (1997). From 1997 until 2003 he worked as part of the writing team for the series Pasado y confeso. In 1998, Lima won the Juan Rulfo Prize for Children's Literature for his story El cerdito que amaba el ballet. After 22 years of partnership, Serret died of a heart attack in 2001. Lima remained in Ecuador for a few more years and immersed himself in various projects, including the script for the play Tres historias de hotel, which premiered in Quito in 2001. Lima moved to Buenos Aires in 2003, where he stayed for a few years. There, he joined the writing team for the telenovela Yo vendo unos ojos negros, taught scriptwriting classes, and in 2006 wrote, along with José Zambrano Brito, the script for a film adaptation of Lima's unpublished novel Filo de amor. In late 2006, Lima moved to the United States, settling first in San Francisco, where he completed an internship at the De Young Museum. In 2007 he began working in photography. The following year he moved to Miami, where he resided and taught creative writing and screenwriting workshops at Miami-Dade College and other institutions. He died in Miami, Florida, in 2023 at age 66. Lima was transgender, and his work touched on sexuality, gender identity, and how social conventions can impede individual freedoms. Although Lima publicly came out as trans later in life, he told an interviewer in 2016 that, "In my case, for my close friends—at least those with whom I could be honest—and for the people with whom I've lived as a couple, it was never a secret that I have always been a man. I have tried to dress as such since age 20, always fighting against the prejudices and attacks, veiled and unveiled, from society." Works Poetry 2017: What the Werewolf told