Local Author Series: Duston Spear

Duston Spear moved to Montague Center a year ago and turned the ground floor of the former livery barn behind her house into a studio for both of her practices: art and writing. Her debut novel BIRD GIRL is forthcoming from Black Rose Writing in 2026.

BIRD GIRL is a story about SoHo in the '70s, as related by Rebekah Hunnicutt, a reclusive painter now living in Western Massachusetts. When a new podcast drops about the poser-boyfriend she had beck then, and how he severed her long braid to make an exhibition based on her hair, Rebekah becomes a cause célèbre, her secret studio a destination. Now she has to decide if she wants to re-enter the New York art world with the seven paintings she's been working—and reworking—for forty years...

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