Pat Matsueda is the managing editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing and a recipient of an Elliott Cades Award for Literature. Her poetry collection Stray was published in 2006; her novella, Bedeviled, was published in 2016/2017.

Noah Perales-Estoesta received his undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2015 before living in Brazil for a year as a Fulbright scholar. He now works as development and digital projects specialist for the University of Hawaii Press in Honolulu.

Alexander Mawyer is Associate Professor at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Codirector of the University of Hawai‘i's Biocultural Initiative of the Pacific, and Editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs.

Frank Stewart is an editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, author of four books of poetry and one of prose on environmental literature, and editor of dozens of anthologies and sixty volumes of Manoa. Winner of the Whiting and other writing awards, Stewart is the President of the Manoa Foundation.

Robert Shapard was cofounder and editor of Manoa in its early years. His fiction and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, New World Writing, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Juked, Necessary Fiction, and HocTok. Recently,he edited Flash Fiction International.