Karen Lloyd lives on the edge of the English Lake District. Her recent book Abundance: Nature in Recovery was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022 for writing on conservation. The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edge of Morecambe Bay (Saraband, 2015) was an Author’s Book of the Year in The Observer. Until autumn 2025 Karen was a senior researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre and now holds an honorary research post with the Institute of Science and Environment at The University of Cumbria.
Karen’s work has appeared in The Guardian Country Diary, Guardian Travel and Family sections, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines and numerous journals.
Her work has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4, Durham Book Festival and others. Her work on landscape recovery in the English Lake District has been commissioned by World Heritage Watch and her poems and essays appear in numerous anthologies.
Karen is a regular speaker and chair at book festivals and speaks on literature, nature and the environment. She is a tutor with Moniack Mhor, the Scottish writers’ centre and with the Arvon Foundation.
If you would like to be in touch please contact Karen here.
