Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick lives in Pittsburgh. She’s the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
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, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. Autumn House Press will publish her short story collection Breaking in 2025.
In spring 2025 Sherrie will serve as the 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
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
Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises. They crisscross each other’s lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course.
Sherrie Flick
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Fiction
Upcoming Events
Book Tour: Murmur, Cameron Barnett
Book Tour: Murmur, Cameron Barnett Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Swisshelm Park Neighborhood ABOUT THE EVENT Programmed by Sherrie Flick and Hattie Fletcher in collaboration […]
Book Tour: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
Book Tour: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Oakland Neighborhood ABOUT THE EVENT Programmed by Sherrie Flick and Hattie Fletcher in […]
Hemingway’s Summer Reading Series
Hemingway’s Summer Reading Series Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM ABOUT THE EVENT This summer the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry series, founded by poet Jimmy Cvetic, will celebrate its 50th […]
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.