Jill Ciment was born in Montreal, Canada. She is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories and novellas; The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, Heroic Measures, and Act of God, novels; and Half a Life, a memoir.
One of her top ten dog stories, as shared at the Guardian:The Odyssey by Homer
Argos, Odysseus’s loyal hound, is one of the first dogs in





