Sherrie Flick

Sherrie Flick is an American fiction writer whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Weave Magazine, Quick Fiction, Lit Hub,[1] and other literary magazines. Flick is also a regular contributor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which publishes her column, "A Writer's Urban Garden."[2] In 2021, her work was performed by actress Marin Ireland for Symphony Space.[3]

She has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She received a 2007 individual artist fellowship from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

For ten years Flick was artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She teaches fiction writing at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as Senior Editor of Smokelong Quarterly[4] and Series Editor of the Best Small Fictions series. She has taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in arts institutions, including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography, and curates literary programs in alternative settings like Wood-Fired Words in Braddock, PA and for the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art.[5]