SUSAN AHDOOT is a poet and visual artist. She began painting as part of her spiritual path and has since had numerous and individual group shows. Ahdoot has been writing poetry for the past two and a half years and toured Europe in May 2000 reading from her first book of poetry, HEAT. Highlights included Shakespeare & Co. and Tea & Tattered Pages in Paris and student workshops in Germany. She has been published in FTS and GW Review. She has two new books of poetry, BEFORE YES and THE END TO INERTIA. She has been invited to participate in the 2003 show on Women's Sexuality that the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana is producing. She is currently working on a project that combines her poetry and art.