To celebrate the release of Electric Grace: Still more Fiction by Washington Area Women tonight, editor Richard Peabody and ten of the book’s forty-two contributors will be reading selections from their work at Politics & Prose tonight at 7 p.m. Faye Moskowitz, a memoirist, poet, short story writer and professor, will read from her story “Completo (A Triptych),” from the journal, Story Quarterly.

Professor Moskowitz—or just Faye, as she would have it—grew up in Detroit but has lived in D.C. for 45 years and has written mostly on her life as a Jewish American woman and mother. Her work can be found in dozens of anthologies as well as the Washington Post, The New York Times, and Jerusalem Post. Her books include A Leak in the Heart, Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen, and Whoever Finds This: I Love You. She is currently writing poetry and teaching classes on Creative Writing and Jewish American Literature at The George Washington University.

Moskowitz found time to answer some of DCist’s questions in her GWU office.

You’ve been active in the Washington women writers’ community for some time. Was Electric Grace a product of this community or did Peabody work on this separately?

I’m not sure how Peabody went about getting this all together, but I really wasn’t involved. I got a call and they said asked me if I had anything I could contribute to this anthology and I said sure, but the publisher of the story we wanted was asking for too much money for reprint rights, so we settled on this one. Around four or five weeks ago, I e-mailed a copy editor, had a little argument about the use of one particular word, a neologism, but that was that.