Lloyd, David T. 1954–

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Lloyd, David T. 1954–

PERSONAL: Born February 25, 1954, in Utica, NY; son of Richard Glynne (a minister) and Mair Elvira (Thomas) Lloyd; married Kim G. Waale (a sculptor and professor), October 18, 2000; children: Nia Mair Waale. Education: St. Lawrence University, B.A., 1975; University of Vermont, M.A., 1978; Brown University, M.A. (creative writing) and Ph.D., 1985.

ADDRESSES: Office—English Department, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214. E-mail—Lloyd@lemoyne.edu.

CAREER: Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, 1985–, associate professor, assistant professor, then professor of English and director of creative-writing program, Rev. Francis J. Fallon, SJ, professor, 1999–2001, Rev. Kevin G. O'Connell, SJ, professor in the humanities, 2005–08; freelance writer. Poet-in-residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY, 2001, and Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2002.

AWARDS, HONORS: Scholar of the Year, Le Moyne University, 1995; New York State Foundation for the Arts/Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts stipend, 2000, 2002, 2004; first prize, TallGrass Anthology Contest, 2000, for poems "Expedition" and "Creatures within Give Advice"; Robert H. Winner Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 2000, for "Sestinas for the Everyday Apocalypse"; Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, 2000–01; Pushcart Award nomination, 2001, for story "As Always, Jason"; first place, Tradition Verse category, Oregon State Poetry Association, 2001, for "Sestina on the Everyday Apocalypse"; Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society chapbook contest winter, 2002, for The Everyday Apocalypse, 2002.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales, TriQuarterly Books (Evanston, IL), 1994.

Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales, Rodopi (Atlanta, GA), 1997.

The Everyday Apocalypse (poetry), Three Conditions Press (Baltimore, MD), 2002.

The Gospel according to Frank (poetry), New American Press (Greensboro, NC), 2003.

(Under name David Lloyd) Boys: Stories and a Novella, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY), 2004.

Contributor of poetry to books, including Reader's Break: A Literary Anthology of Short Stories and Poetry, Pine Grove Press, 1998, Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places, John Gordon Burke Publishing, 2000, Earth Beneath, Sky Beyond, Outrider Press, 2000, A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit, Greenwood Press, 2001, A Due Voci: The Photographs of Rita Hammond, Syracuse University, 2003, and periodicals, including Verseweavers. Contributor of essays to books, including The Writer in Our World, edited by Reginald Gibbons, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986; Poetry Wales: 25 Years, Seren Books, 1990; Self, World, Poem: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Kent State University Press, 1990; Contiguous Traditions in Post-War British Poetry, 1994; and Seamus Heaney: The Shaping Spirit, University of Delaware Press, 1996; and to periodicals, including Twentieth Century Literature.

SIDELIGHTS: Poet and fiction writer David T. Lloyd is also a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Le Moyne College in upstate New York. In his published poems and articles, Lloyd shares his interest in post-World War II literature as well as other aspects of Irish/Welsh studies. The anthology The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales, which Lloyd edited, appeared in 1994; Lloyd's second poetry collection, 2002's The Everyday Apocalypse, was a winner of the Maryland State Poetry and Literary Society chapbook contest and Lloyd has also received the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award.

Lloyd's first published collection of prose, Boys: Stories and a Novella focuses on the lives of adolescent boys growing up in New York during the mid-1960s. The protagonists of Lloyd's tales face obstacles, sometimes throwing caution to the wind as they test their physical and emotional limitations. In the novella Boys Only thirteen-year-old Chris takes a risk by joining best friends Joey and Frank in forming an exclusive gang membership, gains his first insight into adult sexuality, and suffers his first romantic crush.

Other stories include "No Boundaries," about a combative dodge ball game; "As Always, Jason," about a boy's efforts to gain attention by dispensing information in fact-filled notes; and "Spider," in which a teen wrestler takes the upper hand against a weaker sparring partner. Revealing and yet sometimes brutal, the collection was praised for its accurate portrayal of modern teen boys' sometimes troubled coming of age. "Sharply observed," Lloyd's fiction is "filled with scenes both mundane and shocking that capture those strange, private moments of shame, fear, pride, and creativity," stated Gillian Engberg in Booklist, while a Publishers Weekly reviewer commented that the "quiet, sometimes chilling stories remind us of childhood's unique travails." Lloyd proves himself to be "a writer with unique insight into that world," added the Publishers Weekly contributor.