Jim Tilley

Jim Tilley: is a Canadian-born poet who holds a doctorate in physics from Harvard University and spent 25 years in insurance and investment banking, rising to senior management positions. He has published three collections of poetry, Lessons from Summer Camp (2016), Cruising at Sixty to Seventy (2014), and In Confidence (2011), all from Red Hen Press.  Tilley’s short memoir, The Elegant Solution,was published as a Ploughshares solo (2013); his first novel, Against the Wind,is forthcoming from Red Hen.  He is the recipient of the 2008 Sycamore Review’sWabash Prize for Poetry.  He resides with his wife, Deborah Schneider, in Bedford Corners, New York.