Novelist to Read From Work at UPB

Writer Sherrie Flick, who recently published her debut novel about a 23-year-old woman who embarks on a road trip to escape one life and build another, will read selections her work Feb. 23 at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.

Part of the university’s Spectrum Series, the event starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Bromeley Family Theater of Blaisdell Hall. A question-and-answer session, book signing and reception will follow. The program is free and open to the public.

“Sherrie is a master of flash fiction, with short-short stories in anthologies and journals, and it’s interesting to see how someone who normally writes in a spare, witty form translates that to a novel form,” said Nancy McCabe, director of the writing program at Pitt-Bradford.

“She has a lot of insight not just as a writer, but as someone who has made her living as a freelance writer and arts administrator; I like to bring writers who have taken different life paths so our students get an idea of their range of options.”

Flick’s debut novel, “Reconsidering Happiness,” was published last summer by University of Nebraska Press, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette hailed the book as being “inviting, warm, rich and complex.”

She has also published a compilation of flash fiction -- pieces that contain fewer words than a short story -- in 2004 in her chapbook “I Call This Flirting.”

Flick’s stories have been published in anthologies, including “Sudden Fiction,” “Flash Fiction Forward,” “Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction” and “You Have Time for This.” One of her essays appeared in “The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction,” and her fiction has been published in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Quarterly West, Puerto del Sol, Quick Fiction and Freight Stories.

Flick, a freelance writer and editor, also established the Gist Street Reading Series, a program in its ninth year that celebrates national and local poets and prose writers who have published their first or second book. She also serves as the artistic director.

She was also named one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40" in 2005 and received an individual artist fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2007.

Flick has taken part in artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

She teaches graduate classes at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and undergraduate classes at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She also teaches interdisciplinary writing workshops in arts institutions, including Carnegie Museum of Art and Silver Eye Center for Photography.

More information about the Spectrum Series is available by contacting Patty Colosimo, assistant director of arts programming, at (814) 362-5155.

For disability-related needs, contact the Office of Disability Resources and Services at (814) 362-7609 or arj4@pitt.edu.

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