Cheryl Pappas is the author of The Clarity of Hunger (word west press, 2021), a collection of flash fiction.
Her stories have appeared in Swamp Pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Wigleaf, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Juked, The Chattahoochee Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She was awarded a grant in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2022.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a second draft of her first novel, Abandon—a contemporary retelling of Hansel and Gretel, in which the parents are addicted to opioids.
