Piers Gelly

Piers Gelly is a prose writer living in Charlottesville, Virginia; Peter Myers* is a poet living in New York. They have been friends since 2009, when they met during freshman year of college. After a 2018 conversation about John Ashbery’s and James Schuyler’s co-authored novel, A Nest of Ninnies, Myers and Gelly began drafting a novel together. At first, following Ninnies, they traded off sentences, but soon transitioned to a new procedure: 50 words per day, with the writer alternating each day. Autofiction; or, the Author Function is the result of this collaboration.