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.

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.

Sharon May coedited In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing from Cambodia for Manoa journal and is editing an issue of Cambodian writing for Words Without Borders. Her fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, the Chicago Tribune, Manoa, Tin House, and elsewhere.

Tony Barnstone is Professor of English at Whittier College; his is the author of Pulp Sonnets, Beast in the Apartment, and nineteen other books and the album "Tokyo's Burning." His awards include fellowships from the NEA and NEH, the Poets Prize, the John Ciardi Prize, the Benjamin Saltman Award, the Grand Prize Strokestown International Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize.