Franco Pappalardo La Rosa (born in Giarre, 15 September 1941) is an Italian journalist, literary critic, and writer.
Nowadays he contributes to many literary magazines, as Hebenon, Chelsea (New York) and L'Indice.
He edited the publication of some works written by contemporary Italian writers, as Stefano Jacomuzzi, Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Emanuele Occelli, Francesco Granatiero and Angelo Jacomuzzi.
He took part in National and International Conferences on figures and aspects of contemporary poetry and fiction.
He edits I Colibrì (Edizioni dell'Orso), fiction library between journalism and literature.