Jo Lloyd won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2019 and an O. Henry Prize in 2018. Her debut short story collection is published in the UK as The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies and in the US as Something Wonderful. It was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in South Wales where she now lives.