John Pappas (born John Joseph Pappas, August 14, 1974, North Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.A.), high school language arts teacher, musician, and poet. Had work honored in the Mayor of Boston’s Poetry Contest the THF Touchstone Awards, the Trailblazer Haiku Contest, the Ito En New Haiku Grand Prix competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and Haiku Honorable Mention in the Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards, among others. In 2024 published a chapbook, Dimes of Light and was included in Off the Main Road: Six Contemporary Haiku Writers. Resides in Boston, Massachusetts.