Cement Dust draws a stark picture of the confluence of creativity and confusion as a sculptor and her younger cousin deal with her growing manic-depression syndrome. Feyhe Baumann has no idea of her illness but her cousin's son, Billy Duncan becomes the object of her obsessive nature and he also begins to develop this problem.

J. Peter Bergman has been a published writer since the age of 14 when he began work as a theater critic for a small local newspaper in Queens, New York. He has also published another novel, Small Ironies, a book of short stories, Counterpoints, co-authored The Films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy with Eleanor Knowles Dugan and John Cocchi. He served on a congressional committee to create a White House Record Library during the Nixon Administration. For a decade he worked as a theater music historian for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Record Library at Lincoln Center. He has been an actor, dancer, stage director, sound designer and producer for theater in New York and The Berkshires, where he now lives.