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As I was shooting these pictures, Burnard remarked, "I have my father's hands. So do my three children."

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Writing is a pretty hands-on endeavor in that it is the hands that make our thoughts legible via pen-on-paper or keyboards. Without working digits, writers are reduced to working aloud, dictating their work to a machine or an assistant. Which would make it either too noisy or too public for my liking...

I'll be posting similar portraits throughout the week. If there's an author whose hands you'd like to see, let me know...

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Books by Bonnie Burnard:

Suddenly. Toronto, HarperCollins, 2009.
A Good House. Toronto, HarperCollins, 1999.
Casino and Other Stories. Toronto, HarperCollins, 1994.
Women of Influence. Regina, Coteau Books, 1988.

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Ariel Gordon is the Winnipeg-based author of two recent small press chapbooks and has had poetry published in fine lit mags such as Carousel, PRISM International and Prairie Fire.

Her first collection of poetry, Hump, is forthcoming from Ontario's Palimpsest Press in spring 2010.

When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods taking macro photographs of mushrooms.