David Lloyd, Ph.D.

David is the author of ten books, including three poetry collections: The Everyday Apocalypse (2002), The Gospel According to Frank (2009), and Warriors (2012). He published three works of fiction: Boys: Stories and a Novella (2004), Over the Line (a novel, 2013), and The Moving of the Water (short story collection, 2018). His edited anthologies include Imagined Greetings: Poetic Engagements with R. S. Thomas, Other Land: Contemporary Poems on Wales and Welsh-American Experience, Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales, and The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English- Language Poetry from Wales. In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, judged by W. D. Snodgrass. In 2016 he received the M. Wynn Thomas Award for outstanding academic work in the field of Welsh Writing in English. He received two Fulbright Scholar awards: at Bangor University, Wales (2001) and at Cardiff University, Wales (2022). His interviews, poems, stories, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, and Virginia Quarterly Review.