About Cheryl Pappas

Cheryl Pappas is an American writer living outside Boston. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in Juked, Wigleaf, The Chattahoochee Review, Hobart, Ploughshares, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Her debut collection of flash fiction, The Clarity of Hunger, is published by word west press (2021).

She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is the recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship grant in fiction from the Mass Cultural Council and a fellowship to MacDowell for Summer 2023.

In Spring 2026, she will teach the graduate-level course Experimental Forms in Flash Fiction at the Harvard Extension School.

She is writing her first novel.