Jim Tilley earned 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 recieved the 2008 Founder’s Award from the International Insurance Society for his pioneering work in asset-liability managment. His poems have been published in Southern Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Chattahooche Review, New Delta Review, Nimrod, Rattle, Florida Review, and other journals. He resides with his wife in Bedford Corners, New York.
His poem, “On the Art of Patience,” won the 2008 Wabash Prize for Poetry and appeared in Issue 21.1-Winter/Spring 2009.
