Author/Editor/Educator Sherrie Flick in Conversation with OSU's Jim Phelan!

Join author, editor, and educator Sherrie Flick to learn about her new flash fiction collection, I Have Not Considered Consequences, evocative and thought-provoking stories that delve into the complexities of grief, desire, and a peculiar intersection between humans and bears. Sherrie will be in conversation with Jim Phelan, a distinguished professor in English at Ohio State University and a worldwide leader in the field of narrative theory.

This is a free event. One can pre-order Flick’s story collection while registering, or at the event.

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.

Sherrie Flick’s evocative and thought-provoking stories follow characters like Bobby, a local home inspector who zips into a bear suit on his daily rounds, and a Gen-X couple, Matty and Trudy, navigating the ups and downs of their adult lives, from a dead fish named Patti Smith to dashed dreams of indie rock stardom.

In Flick's world, bears don't just roam the wild—they play basketball, dance, and even work as midlevel business professionals, while the humans around them ponder love, allegiance and what to make of Edith Wharton. Through this memorable cast of characters, Flick reveals intriguing secrets about humanity and yearning with her signature blend of stark honesty and humor.

Sherrie Flick is the author of the short story collections, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc., the novel Reconsidering Happiness, and the essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist. She served as coeditor of the anthology Flash Fiction America with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. Sherrie is the 2025 McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College.She is the recipient of a Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks' Creative Corps.

Jim Phelan is Distinguished University Professor and Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. He teaches and writes about narrative theory, the medical humanities, the English and American novel, especially from modernism to the present, and nonfictional narrative. Jim also serves as Director of Project Narrative at Ohio State, a cluster of faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students who work on narrative and narrative theory. He is the author or co-author of eleven books and editor or co-editor of another eleven, as well as approximately 180 essays. From 1992 until last year, he served as the editor of Narrative, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, where he was named the recipient of its Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award.