Sherrie Flick is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College and a senior lecturer at Chatham University. Recent awards include a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. Her debut essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is part of the American Lives series at University of Nebraska Press. One of the essays in Homing, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” originally published in New England Review, was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Flick is the author of Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories, Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories, and Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel. She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 (with guest editor Aimee Bender), and is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She writes, works, and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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