Faye Moskowitz

Faye Moskowitz, a professor of English and Creative Writing at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., is author of the memoirs A Leak in the Heart (1985)  And the Bridge is Love,  (1991) and Peace in the House (2002), as well as the short story collection Whoever Finds This: I Love YouAnd the Bridge is Love will be reissued by Feminist Press in November, 2011. She is editor of Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters (1994).  Her poems, essays, book reviews and short stories have been widely published in such places as The Washington Post, the New York Times, Woman’s Day, Jerusalem Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Lilith Magazine,etc. etc. Her work appears in over 2 dozen anthologies.   She was for years a commentator on “All Things Considered” on National Public Radio. She was twice recipient of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.  Presently she is poetry editor of Moment Magazine.


2 entries by Faye Moskowitz

Book Review

Elie Wiesel, translated by Catherine Temerson

Hostage

Though touted as a thriller, this novel is more a mixture of memoir and fiction suffused with a series of existential questions and mystical epigrams.

Book Review

Peter Orner

Love and Shame and Love

Chicago is a fully realized character in this story of one Jewish family’s thwarted optimism over three generations.