About

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 and together with The Blackbird Diaries(Saraband, 2017) won awards at The Lakeland Book of the Year awards.

Karen’s work has appeared in The Guardian Country Diary, Guardian Travel and Family sections, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines and numerous journals. In 2016 an essay was commissioned by the Royal Geographic Society to mark the first anniversary of Storm Desmond.

The poetry pamphlet Self-Portrait as Ornithologist was published by Wayleave Press in 2020. Poems have been commissioned by the BBC as part of the Contains Strong Language festival and have been published by Corbel Stone Press, Zoomorphic and other online platforms including Ink, Sweat and Tears and in the anthology of Cumbrian poetry, This Place I Know, (Handstand Press).

Karen is a regular speaker and chair at book festivals and speaks on literature, nature and the environment. She teaches part time on Lancaster’s Creative Writing MA programme and is a tutor with the Arvon Foundation. She works as a research assistant and Writer in Residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre.

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

Karen Lloyd