John Eppel (born 19 September 1947) is a Zimbabwean short story writer, novelist and poet.

He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),[2] at the age of four.

He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the University of Natal in South Africa, where he completed his English master's degree in 'A Study of Keatsian Dialectics'.

His works are studied in universities across South Africa and he currently teaches English at Christian Brothers College, Bulawayo.

Making Whoopie (Online) Not the Whispering Wild (Pigeon Press) The Boy who loved Camping (Pigeon Press) Poems of Resistance (Mwanaka Publishing) Traffickings (InkSword) He married at the age of 34 and has three children; Ben, Ruth and Joe.