"Flick’s writing is fresh and decisive, often lyrical in its descriptions." —Necessary Fiction 

"Flick is a master of creating big scenes in small, often quiet spaces and allowing her characters a full range of motion to demonstrate their passions, their fears, their desperate need to find community. Thank Your Lucky Stars is a delightful book of short fiction, one that provokes personal reflection and offers a satisfying reading experience." —Black Fox Literary Review 

"Sherrie Flick is, like every great writer, a sublime noticer. The rich bounty of stories in Thank Your Lucky Stars is a testament to the raw power of her attention, her imagination, and her compassion. Her range is also astonishing. She veers from realism to fabulism to naturalism, from crickets to cowboys to fake farmers, with special commendations for those ready and willing to risk their heart for a bit more out of life." —Steven Almond 

"Read Sherrie Flick’s collection. You will thank your own lucky stars." —Pamela Painter 

"Thank Your Lucky Stars brims with wit and wisdom, love and disaster, and the best kinds of surprises. Each of her stories is a richly imagined little world. I loved visiting every one of them." —Margot Livesey 

"These fifty stories have an astonishing scope, as vast as our American states. Sherrie Flick seems to know something about all of us, and she’s telling our secrets." —Dan Chaon

Sherrie Flick is the author of the short story collections, I Have Not Considered Consequences, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc. (all published by Autumn House Press), the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), and the essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press). Whiskey, Etc. was the winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2016. A story from Thank Your Lucky Stars was performed at Symphony Space and aired on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She served as coeditor of the anthology Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton) with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks’ Creative Corps.