Karen Lloyd

Wainwright Prize longlisted author Karen Lloyd lives in the English Lake District. Her first book, The Gathering Tide; A Journey Around the Edge of Morecambe Bay, (Saraband, 2015) was lauded by Mark Cocker as “a hugely impressive debut” and selected in the Observer Author’s Book of the Year, 2015. It won the Striding Edge Productions Prize for Place in the Lakeland Book Awards. The Blackbird Diaries was published in 2017 (Saraband) and was awarded the Bookends Prize for Literature and Poetry. Her third book, Abundance: Nature in Recovery (Bloomsbury 2021 UK and US) explores restoration and regeneration in the natural world, from Romania’s Carpathian mountain forests, the Hungarian steppe, the return of the wolf to the Netherlands and closer to home, in Scotland and the Lake District. Lloyd is the editor of North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature (Saraband, 2022) which brings together numerous diverse voices from the historic to the contemporary in the North of England for the first time.

Lloyd has written for Guardian Country Diary and is a contributor to Guardian Travel and Family sections, BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines. She edited and produced the anthology Curlew Calling (Numenius Press, 2017) to raise funds for curlew conservation. Her poetry pamphlet Self Portrait as Ornithologist was published by Wayleave Press in 2020. www.karenlloyd.co.uk