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Jon Paul Fiorentino wouldn't let me photograph his fingers, saying he'd get in trouble. He didn't even want his thumbs showing, so I told him to tuck them in. And he did.

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Books by JPF:

Stripmalling. ECW, Toronto, 2009.
The Theory of the Loser Class. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006.
Asthmatica. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2005.
Hello Serotonin. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2004.
Resume Drowning. Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2002.
Transcona Fragments. Winnipeg: Cyclops Press/Signature Editions, 2002.

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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.