Karen Lloyd

Karen Lloyd is a writer from the English Lake District. Her recent book, Abundance: Nature in Recovery, was published by Bloomsbury in the UK and US and was longlisted in the 2022 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation. She is the writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre.

Abundance: Nature in Recovery

‘If I was to recommend one book people should read for their well-being, it would be this.’ (Tim Smit, The Eden Project). Published by Bloomsbury…

North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature

Published by Saraband (November 2022) and edited by Karen Lloyd, North Country is a celebration of Northern culture and literature featuring a diverse set of…

The Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage

‘Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as…

Anthology of Speculative Nature

Published by Guillemot Press, 2023 Edited by Jos Smith and Hetty Saunders of UEA School of Creative Writing, including Karen Lloyd’s essay ‘Inside the Rockpool…

The Gathering Tide (Saraband)

The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edge of Morecambe Bay was an Author’s Book of the Year in The Observer and was awarded the…

The Blackbird Diaries (Saraband 2017)

Written as a diary over the course of a single year, I observe the wildlife in our garden on the edge of the English Lake…

Curlew Calling: An Anthology of Poetry, Nature Writing and Images in Celebration of Curlew

Now out of print, Curlew Calling was edited and published by Karen Lloyd (through Numinous Press) to raise awareness of the plight of Britain’s curlews…

Self Portrait as Ornithologist

‘Lloyd’s work is grounded in precise observation, but the best of it goes beyond that in its unsentimental empathy and its imaginative inventiveness.’ (Acumen) Self…