Karen Lloyd

Dr Karen Lloyd is an author, editor and teacher whose work addresses human interactions with landscape and nature. She is a Wainwright Prize longlisted author for her previous book, Abundance: Nature in Recovery (Bloomsbury, 2021) and her first book The Gathering Tide was an author’s pick of the year in the Observer, 2015. Her work has been commissioned internationally and is widely published including in the Guardian, BBC Wildlife, LitHu and Dark Mountain. She is an honorary researcher with the Institute of Science and Environment at the University of Cumbria and was previously senior researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre. She is a contributing editor to The Wolf: Culture, Nature and Heritage (Boydell and Brewer, 2023) and editor of North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature (Saraband, 2023) and Curlew Calling Anthology (Numenius Press, 2017).