Toby Lloyd was born in Lon­don to a sec­u­lar father and a Jew­ish moth­er. He stud­ied Eng­lish at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty before mov­ing to Amer­i­ca to pur­sue an MFA in cre­ative writ­ing at NYU. He has pub­lished short sto­ries and essays in Carve Mag­a­zine and the Los Ange­les Review of Books and was longlist­ed for the 2021 V. S. Pritch­ett Short Sto­ry Prize. He lives in London.