Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh community in central New York State. FORGED LIGHT is her third collection of poems. Alice James Books brought out her first collection, This Particular Earthly Scene. Plinth Books published A MOMENT IN THE FIELD: VOICES FROM ARTHURIAN LEGEND (2006). In addition, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press published William Carlos Williams' Paterson: A Critical Reappraisal, now considered seminal in the field. Her poetry honors include a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, fellowships to Breadloaf and to Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, and a writing residency at Yaddo where she worked on the poems in FORGED LIGHT. A poet and painter, Lloyd is Professor of English at Springfield College.
