About Karen Lloyd

I am an author, academic and environmentalist from the English Lake District. My work explores the complex relationships between humans and the natural world and the rights of nature.

My most recent book is Earthworks: Land and Nature in Uncertain Times, published by Saraband in 2026. Abundance: Nature in Recovery (Bloomsbury) 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.

From 2020 to 2025 I was a senior researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre and in 2026 was awarded an Honorary Research post with the Institute of Science and Environment at the University of Cumbria. I have edited two collections of work, Curlew Calling: An Anthology of Poetry, Nature Writing and Images in Celebration of Curlew, available to purchase here and North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature (Saraband) available to purchase here.

My work has been published widely, including  Guardian Country Diary, Guardian Travel and Family sections, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines, LitHub and has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and Durham Book Festival. My report on landscape recovery in the English Lake District (with Prof Ian Convery and Lee Schofield) was commissioned by World Heritage Watch. Essays appear in various anthologies, most recently in Future Rural: Imagining Tomorrow’s Countryside (Little Toller).

I’m a regular speaker and chair at book festivals and have tutored with the Scottish writers' centre at Moniack Mhor, the Arvon Foundation and for Society of Authors. I’m a founder member of and editor with Paperboats.org the Scotland-based collective of writers and activists.

If you would like to be in touch, please contact me here.