Program Type:
Author Talk- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on January 17, 2026 @ 11:00am.
Program Description
Event Details
Local author Sherrie Flick will read from and discuss her debut essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press, 2024). The collection traces her creative growth and examines how leaving the rustbelt, traveling, and returning to the region made her a specific kind of Gen-X feminist and writer.
Bio:
Sherrie Flick’s recent awards include a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She is the author of three story collections: I Have Not Considered Consequences, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc., all published by Autumn House Press. Her debut essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist was published by University of Nebraska Press. The essay “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018, and is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She served as the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College and recently joined the fiction faculty for West Virginia Wesleyan’s low-res MFA. She lives in Pittsburgh.
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