Sherrie Flick is author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting and the short story collection Whiskey, Etc., a bronze prize winner for the Foreword INDIES best short story collection of 2017. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Flash Fiction Forward, and New Sudden Fiction. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and residencies from Ucross, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, she teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and serves as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

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"In her descriptions of food, the Nebraskan landscape, and the rhythms of work at a tourist town bakery, Flick indulges in sensual detail with pleasurable results."—Publishers Weekly "Alternating between time and perspectives, and spanning the two coasts, this introspective, conversational, travelogue-like novel captures the pensive force driving the two women's personal journeys, and how the women are illuminated by sparks of reconciliation along the way."—Leah Strauss, Booklist "Inviting, warm, rich and complex."—Sherri Hallgren, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Flick's narrative descriptions of Nebraska are dazzling, as are her portrayals of food and working in a bakery. . . . Reconsidering Happiness is a thoughtful work for thoughtful readers, who enjoy fine literature."—Christopher Zoukis, kansascity.com

Sherrie Flick is author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting and the short story collection Whiskey, Etc., a bronze prize winner for the Foreword INDIES best short story collection of 2017. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Flash Fiction Forward, and New Sudden Fiction. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and residencies from Ucross, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, she teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and serves as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

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"In her descriptions of food, the Nebraskan landscape, and the rhythms of work at a tourist town bakery, Flick indulges in sensual detail with pleasurable results."—Publishers Weekly "Alternating between time and perspectives, and spanning the two coasts, this introspective, conversational, travelogue-like novel captures the pensive force driving the two women's personal journeys, and how the women are illuminated by sparks of reconciliation along the way."—Leah Strauss, Booklist "Inviting, warm, rich and complex."—Sherri Hallgren, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Flick's narrative descriptions of Nebraska are dazzling, as are her portrayals of food and working in a bakery. . . . Reconsidering Happiness is a thoughtful work for thoughtful readers, who enjoy fine literature."—Christopher Zoukis, kansascity.com

Sherrie Flick is author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting and the short story collection Whiskey, Etc., a bronze prize winner for the Foreword INDIES best short story collection of 2017. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Flash Fiction Forward, and New Sudden Fiction. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and residencies from Ucross, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, she teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and serves as co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

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"In her descriptions of food, the Nebraskan landscape, and the rhythms of work at a tourist town bakery, Flick indulges in sensual detail with pleasurable results."—Publishers Weekly "Alternating between time and perspectives, and spanning the two coasts, this introspective, conversational, travelogue-like novel captures the pensive force driving the two women's personal journeys, and how the women are illuminated by sparks of reconciliation along the way."—Leah Strauss, Booklist "Inviting, warm, rich and complex."—Sherri Hallgren, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Flick's narrative descriptions of Nebraska are dazzling, as are her portrayals of food and working in a bakery. . . . Reconsidering Happiness is a thoughtful work for thoughtful readers, who enjoy fine literature."—Christopher Zoukis, kansascity.com