Henry Cuyler Bunner (August 3, 1855 – May 11, 1896) was an American novelist, journalist and poet.

Bunner's works have been praised by librarians for its "technical dexterity, playfulness and smoothness of finish".

From being a clerk in an importing house, he turned to journalism, and after some work as a reporter, and on the staff of the Arcadian (1873), he became in 1877 assistant editor of the comic weekly Puck.

He developed Puck from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and political organ.

[2] Among his poetic works Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere,[3] published in 1884 and including one of his best known poems, "The Way to Arcady"; Rowen (1892), and Poems (1896), edited by his friend Brander Matthews and displaying a light play of imagination and a delicate workmanship.