Karen Lloyd — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Marine and Environmental Biology at the University of Southern California.
Writer in Residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre.
Author of 'The Gathering Tide' (2016), which won the prize for Place Writing at the Lakeland Book of the Year 2016.
Author of 'The Blackbird Diaries' (2017), which received the art and literature prize at the Lakeland Book of the Year Awards in 2018.
Author of 'Abundance: Nature in Recovery' (2021), a book of literary essays on nature regeneration.
Environmental activist and speaker on environment panels.

Biography

Karen Lloyd is an English author, poet, and environmental activist from the Lake District. She holds the Wrigley Chair in Environmental Studies and is a Professor of Earth Sciences and Professor of Marine and Environmental Biology at the University of Southern California. Lloyd also serves as Writer in Residence with Lancaster University's Future Places Centre.