Sherrie Flick

I’m a creative writer and editor. 

My fiction tends to be very short and my creative nonfiction very long. 

Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (2024) is my most recent publication, part of the American Lives series at University of Nebraska Press. An essay from that collection was named notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Other publications include, Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories (2018), Whiskey, Etc. (Short) Short Stories (2016), and Reconsidering Happiness: a Novel (2009). My third story collection I Have Not Considered Consequences, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in April 2025 and a co-written nonfiction craft book will release from University of Nebraska Press in 2026. 

I served as co-editor for the 2023 Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018. I’m a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly and sit on the board of Braddock Avenue Books. 

I’ve spent a lot of time teaching in nontraditional spaces and currently design and lead immersive creative writing and literature walking programs as part of Shiftworks Creative Corps in Pittsburgh, PA. 

My awards include a 2023 Creative Development grant from The Heinz Endowments, PA Partners in the Arts grants, and an Arts Experience Initiative grant from The Heinz Endowments in collaboration with Silver Eye Center for Photography. I’ve received fellowships from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation, Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Sewanee Writers’ Conference. 

I love interdisciplinary work of all kinds and have an especially keen interest in food culture and how it intersects with memory and narrative. I’ve spent the last 25 years tending a gigantic urban vegetable garden and thinking about the connection between cultivation and the creative process.