Author Monica Duncan’s debut novel "Twine" was released by Crowsnest Books in September 2019 with a glowing blurb from Elinor Lipman, a recommendation by Parade Magazine, and an interview in the Boston Globe.
Duncan’s essays have appeared in Political Animal Magazine, Writer’s Digest and Women Writers, Women’s Books.
SheReads listed Twine as one of the “Best Fall Books by Women”
and Women.com lists Twine on its “15 of the Best New Fall Books by Women.”
Duncan was a presenter at the 2019 and 2020 Newburyport Literary Festival, and is now represented
by Gisa Seeholzer of Inspired Ink Literary.
As a clarinetist she can be heard with the Lexington Symphony, Salem Philharmonic, Cape Ann Symphony,
Improbable Beasts, and in chamber groups and pit orchestras throughout the Greater Boston area.
Duncan teaches music at Salem State University and both music and creative writing at Pingree School.
Duncan’s essays have appeared in Political Animal Magazine, Writer’s Digest and Women Writers, Women’s Books.
SheReads listed Twine as one of the “Best Fall Books by Women”
and Women.com lists Twine on its “15 of the Best New Fall Books by Women.”
Duncan was a presenter at the 2019 and 2020 Newburyport Literary Festival, and is now represented
by Gisa Seeholzer of Inspired Ink Literary.
As a clarinetist she can be heard with the Lexington Symphony, Salem Philharmonic, Cape Ann Symphony,
Improbable Beasts, and in chamber groups and pit orchestras throughout the Greater Boston area.
Duncan teaches music at Salem State University and both music and creative writing at Pingree School.
Photo by Bay Schumacher