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I asked Elizabeth Bachinsky if I could shoot her hands immediately after her Afternoon Book Chat at McNally Robinson's Polo Park. She paused, then asked me to catch her during the Mainstage, as she was going for a manicure that afternoon. "Maybe french tips," she purred, before following Rhea Tregebov out of the bookstore.

But she might have had second thoughts, as her hands were shell pink and shiny when she laid them on her shiny shoulder. I apologized for the flash then walked away.

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Books by Elizabeth Bachinsky:

Curio. Toronto: Bookthug, 2005.
Home of Sudden Service. Gibson's: Nightwood, 2006.
God of Missed Connections. Gibson's: Nightwood, 2009.

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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.