Jo Lloyd

Jo Lloyd is a Welsh writer who won the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award. She won an O. Henry Award in 2018. Her debut short story collection, The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, was shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Biography Lloyd grew up in south Wales and now lives there.

Writing career Lloyd's stories have been published in Ploughshares, Southern Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story, and broadcast on BBC Radio. She won the Asham Award, the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize, and a McGinnis-Ritchie Award, and was selected for Best British Short Stories in 2012. The story is set in the 1700s and was inspired by the life of Sir Humphrey Mackworth.

In 2019, Lloyd won the BBC National Short Story Award for her short story "The Invisible". In the US, the collection was published under the title Something Wonderful. The collection was shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

Works Short story collections The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, Swift Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1800750104 Something Wonderful, Tin House Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1951142728 As contributor The O Henry Prize Stories 2018, ed. Laura Furman, Knopf Doubleday, 2018, ISBN 978-0525436584 The BBC National Short Story Award 2019, Comma Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1912697229 Duets, Scratch Books, 2024, ISBN 978-1739830168