Cheryl Pappas is a writer from Boston. She is the author of the flash fiction collection The Clarity of Hunger. Her stories have been published in Swamp Pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Wigleaf, Hayden's Ferry Review, Juked, HAD, Smokelong Quarterly, and more. She is at work on her first novel. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2023 and an artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2022.