Mike Nappa (born December 10, 1963) is an Arab-American author of more than 60 books and an entertainment journalist for the e-magazine, PopFam.com "Pop Culture for Families."

He started his career as a youth pastor,[1] and then transitioned to writing church resources at Group Publishing in Colorado.

[4] He has also served as a fiction acquisitions editor for Barbour Publishing, as a general acquisitions editor (fiction and non-fiction) for David C. Cook publishers, as Editor in Chief of the short-lived Destination Magazine (published by the now-defunct Private Escapes Luxury Destination Clubs),[5] and as Publications Director for Blue Margin Inc.[6] In 2000, Nappa created the award-winning serialized comic book characters, Johnny Grav & The Visioneer,[7][8] for Clubhouse kids magazine.

The Johnny Grav characters returned in 2010 for another three-year run in Clubhouse (2010–2012), which included a serialized prose novel called Nightmare City that ran both in print and online.

In 2023 Nappa began publishing the Bible-Smart™ blog in association with the publication of his commentary book, Bible-Smart™: Matthew (Rose Publishing/Tyndale House).