Author Bio

Sherrie Flick published her debut novel Reconsidering Happiness with Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press as part of their Flyover Fiction series in 2009. It was a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is also author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume, 2004). Anthologies include Keeping the Wolves at Bay (Autumn House, 2010), Sudden Fiction (Norton, 2007), and Flash Fiction Forward (Norton, 2006), as well as Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction (MAMMOTH, 2003) and You Have Time for This (Ooligan, 2007). Her essay “Flash in a Pan” appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, 2009.

Her flash fiction has recently been published in Ploughshares, Drunken Boat, Los Angeles Review, Hot Metal Bridge, and Booth. Over the years, her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Manoa, Quick Fiction, Black Warrior Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and Freight Stories, among others.

Flick has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has been honored as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40,” has received an individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and recently accepted an Artistic Vibrancy Award from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

In January 2011 she served as writer-in-residence at Salem College, Winston Salem, NC. She regularly teaches graduate students in Chatham University’s MFA programs. Over the years, Sherrie has led interdisciplinary writing workshops in many arts institutions, including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography. She often helps curate literary programs in alternative settings, such as the annual Wood-Fired Words with UnSmoke Art Space in Braddock, Pa.

For ten years, Sherrie served as artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series. For six years, she worked as Associate Curator of Education at the Frick Art & Historical Center. For five years, she worked as a professional baker. She recently helped co-found Into the Furnace a small, urban writing residency in Braddock, Pennsylvania. A freelance writer and editor (when she isn’t teaching), she lives on the South Side of Pittsburgh with her husband, Rick Schweikert. She is hard at work on a new flash fiction chapbook and a second novel.

If you visit her blog, Sentences and Food, (here on this site) you’ll also see she likes to cook and garden.