Author Bio

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

Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Quick Fiction, 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. In 2005, she was honored as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40.” In 2007, she received an individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

She teaches graduate students at Chatham University and undergraduate classes at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Sherrie has also taught 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 Wood-Fired Words with UnSmoke Systems in Braddock, Pa. and isReads Pittsburgh.

Flick is artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series, now in its tenth year. Gist Street is a literary reading series focusing on national and local poets and prose writers publishing their first or second books. She is also a freelance writer and editor. She lives in Pittsburgh, where she likes to garden. And if you visit her mini-blog here on this site you’ll also see she likes to cook.