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.
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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.
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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 […]