Margaret Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, of Welsh parents and grew up in a Welsh immigrant community in central New York State. She attended the University of Rochester as an undergraduate and received her Ph.D. at the University of Leeds, England, working under the supervision of the poet Geoffrey Hill. A poet and painter, she lives in Florence, Massachusetts, and is Professor Emeritus of English at Springfield College.
 
Lloyd’s first book was a critical study of Williams Carlos Williams’ long poem Paterson, now considered seminal in the field. She has published five collections of poems: This Particular Earthly Scene; A Moment in the Field: Voices from Arthurian Legend; Forged Light;  Travelling on My Own Errands: Voices of Women from The Mabinogi, and most recently, Sleeping in the Same World  (2024).  Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies and she has received several awards, fellowships, and residencies. As a visual artist, Lloyd began as watercolor painter, then moved into working with slate, and is now immersed in painting with oil. She has held several exhibitions, as well as published paintings and painting/poem pairs in journals, nationally and internationally.