UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Writer Sherrie Flick will offer a reading as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus.

Flick is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College and a senior lecturer at Chatham University. Recent awards include a 2023 Creative Development Grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. Her debut essay collection, “Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist,” is part of the American Lives series at the University of Nebraska Press. One of the essays in that collection, “All in the Family: Waldo and His Ghosts,” originally published in the New England Review, was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023.

Flick also is the author of “Thank Your Lucky Stars: Short Stories, Whiskey, Etc.: Short (Short) Stories” and “Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel.” She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 (with guest editor Aimee Bender), and is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She writes, works and lives in Pittsburgh.

The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives support from the College of the Liberal Arts, the Department of English, the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing, and Penn State University Libraries. A full list of readings in the 2024-25 series can be found at creativewriting.psu.edu.