JILL CIMENT, the author, most recently, of the novel The Body in Question (a New York Times Notable Book), has been the recipient of numerous honors, among them a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Ciment, a professor emeritus at the University of Florida, was born in Montreal; she now lives in Gainesville and New York City.