Michael Nathan Scharf (born January 6, 1969, in Albany, New York) is an American poet and critic.
Scharf's poetry "mimics a vernacular language so debased it does actual harm.
At Poets & Writers magazine, he founded and wrote the column Metromania.
In 1999, he founded Harry Tankoos Books, which publishes books and chapbooks; in 2006, with the poet Joshua Clover, he co-founded the small press ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni, publisher of Kevin Killian's Action Kylie, among other books.
His work has appeared in Chain, ubuweb, Jacket, the Germ, and the Poetry Daily Essentials anthology.