Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick is a recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist was published by University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. Her third story collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in April 2025. She lives in Pittsburgh.
Writer. Editor.
Sherrie Flick lives in Pittsburgh. She’s the author of a novel, a chapbook, and two short story collections: Thank Your Lucky Stars and Whiskey, Etc. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, New England Review, Booth, Belt Magazine, and NPR’s Selected Shorts.
Co-editor for the 2023 Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, she also served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender, and works as a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly.
A 2023 Creative Development Award recipient from The Heinz Endowments, she has also received fellowships from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, her debut essay collection was published by University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024 as part of their American Lives series. An essay from the collection, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Autumn House Press will publish her third short story collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, in April 2025.
Sherrie will serve as the 2025 McGee Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College. She is a senior lecturer at Chatham University, teaches a variety of online classes for the general public, works as a manuscript consultant for Randolph Lundine, and frequently offers writing programs in unlikely urban spaces for Shiftworks as part of their Creative Corps.
Read My Books
I Have Not Considered Consequences
I Have Not Considered Consequences delves into the complexities of grief, desire, and a peculiar intersection between humans and bears. Flick’s evocative and thought-provoking stories follow characters like Bobby, a local home inspector who zips into a bear suit on his daily rounds, and a Gen-X couple, Matty and Trudy, navigating the ups and downs of their adult lives, from a dead fish named Patti Smith to dashed dreams of indie rock stardom. Women wander through small-town streets as they ponder love, allegiance, and Edith Wharton.
In Flick’s world, bears don’t just roam the wild—they play basketball, dance, and even work as midlevel business professionals. Through this memorable cast of characters, Flick reveals intriguing secrets about humanity and yearning with her signature blend of stark honesty and humor.
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, Spring 2025
Short Stories
Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist
With essays braiding, unbraiding, and then tangling the story of the author’s father with Andy Warhol, faith, dialect, labor, whiskey, Pittsburgh’s South Side Slopes neighborhood, grief, gardening, the author’s compulsion to travel, and her reluctance to return home, Flick examines how place shaped her experiences of sexism and feminism. She also looks at the changing food and art cultures and the unique geography that has historically kept this weird hilly place isolated from trendy change.
Sherrie Flick
University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2024
Essay Collection
Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, John Dufresne, co-editors
W. W. Norton, 2023
Anthology, flash fiction
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, 2018
The Best Small Fictions 2018
The anthology features both seasoned and emerging authors who work in flash, micro fiction, prose poetry, haibun, and other hybrid forms. Tara L. Masih founded the series. This edition includes work by Lydia Davis, Rumaan Alam, Diane Williams, Kathy Fish, Michael Parker, Meg Pokrass, Deb Olin Unferth, and Desiree Cooper.
Sherrie Flick, series editor – Aimee Bender, guest editor
Braddock Avenue Books, 2018
Anthology, flash fiction
Whiskey, Etc.: (Short) Short Stories
These stories are funny and serious, outrageous and completely familiar. Readers will meet a cast of characters ranging from a woman who cleans her soon-to-be ex-husband’s house to a woman who seduces her paperboy. These stories are short, but leave readers completely satisfied and reveling in the complexity of our strange lives.
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, 2016
Short Stories
Upcoming Events
Homing—Exploring a Sense of Place in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Homing—Exploring a Sense of Place in Southwestern Pennsylvania Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Rivers of Steel, Pittsburgh, PA ABOUT THE EVENT Join Rivers of Steel for […]
Rustbelt Reflections: An Evening of Written Word & Art
Rustbelt Reflections: An Evening of Written Word & Art Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM The Baby Bello, 2200 9th Avenue, Beaver Falls, PA ABOUT THE […]
Flick’s new collection brims with wit and wisdom, love and disaster, and the best kinds of surprises.
These fifty stories have an astonishing scope, as vast as our American States. Sherrie Flick seems to know something about all of us, and she’s telling our secrets.
Sherrie Flick is, like every great writer, a sublime noticer. The rich bounty of stories in Thank Your Lucky Stars is a testament to the raw power of her attention, her imagination, and her compassion. Her range is astonishing. She veers from realism to fabulism to naturalism, from crickets to cowboys to fake farmers, with special commendations for those ready and willing to risk their heart for a bit more out of life.