Jo Lloyd

Lloyd's stories have been published in Ploughshares,^[3] Southern Review,^[4] and Zoetrope: All-Story,^[5] and broadcast on BBC Radio.^[6] 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.^[2]

In 2018, Lloyd's story "The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies", originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story, won an O. Henry Award.^[2][7] The story is set in the 1700s and was inspired by the life of Sir Humphrey Mackworth.^[8]

In 2019, Lloyd won the BBC National Short Story Award for her short story "The Invisible".^[1][2] The story is set in rural Wales and is based on the life of Martha'r Mynydd, an eighteenth-century woman from Carnarvonshire who said that she was visited by an invisible family.^[2]

Lloyd's debut short story collection, The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, was published in 2021.^[9][10] In the US, the collection was published under the title Something Wonderful.^[8][11] The collection was shortlisted for the 2021 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.^[12][13]

• The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies, Swift Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1800750104
• Something Wonderful, Tin House Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1951142728

• 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