Karen Lloyd is an award winning writer and environmental activist based in Cumbria. Her first book, The Gathering Tide; A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay (Saraband, 2016) won the Striding Edge Productions Prize for Place in The Lakeland Book of the Year Awards. Her second book, The Blackbird Diaries (Saraband, 2017), won The Lakeland Arts and Literature Award 2018. She produced and edited the anthology Curlew Calling to raise funds for curlew conservation.

Karen has written for The Guardian, The Royal Geographical Society, is a features writer for BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines and a member of Kendal’s Brewery Poets. Her third book is an exploration of abundance in the natural world.