About Jim
Jim Tilley's poems have been published in various literary journals and magazines, among which are Southwest Review, Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sycamore Review, Tar River Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Florida Review, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, Poetry East, Hotel Amerika, and Hawai'i Pacific Review. He has won the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize for Poetry, the New England Poetry Club's Firman Houghton Award, Atlanta Review's International Publication Award, and the Editors' Choice Award from Rhino. Four of his poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His work also appears in the college textbook anthology "Literature to Go" (Bedford/St. Martin's), edited by Michael Meyer.
Jim has studied poetry with several nationally acclaimed poets, including Louise Glück, Brigit Kelly, and David Rivard at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; Pete Fairchild, Mary Jo Salter, Alan Shapiro, and Mark Strand at the Sewanee Writers' Conference; Mark Doty at the Southampton Writers' Conference; Alan Shapiro, David Wojahn, Gerald Stern, Claudia Emerson, and Stephen Dunn at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival; Tony Hoagland at a Poets House master workshop; and Stephen Dobyns and Stuart Dischell at the Sarah Lawrence College Summer Writers' Program.
Jim earned a first-class honors degree in Physics from McGill University and a doctorate in Physics from Harvard University. He retired in 2001 after a 25-year career in insurance and investment banking. He has won numerous prizes for his papers in actuarial science, finance, and investments, and in 2008 received a Founder's Award from the International Insurance Society for his pioneering work in asset-liability management.