has been editor since 1989 and is the author of four books of poetry, the editor of eight anthologies, an essayist, and a translator. For his first three books of poetry, he was awarded the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award in New York in 1986. His latest collection, By All Means, was published in 2003 by El Léon of Berkeley, California. He has also edited eight anthologies on the contemporary literature and environment of Hawai‘i, Asia, and the Pacific. In 1978, he co-edited Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii’s Local Writers, and in 2004, the anthology The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry into English was published by Copper Canyon Press. His books of environmental writing include A Natural History of Nature Writing and such edited works as The Presence of Whales and Wao Akua: The Sacred Source, which came out in 2003. His essays have been widely anthologized, most recently in Father Nature: Fathers as Guides to the Natural World, published by University of Iowa Press in 2003.
In 2002, Stewart represented American writers at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry, held in Manila; and in 2003 he was a U.S. representative to the Taipei International Poetry Festival, held in the Taiwan capital. He is a member of the board of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, headquartered at the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim, and an editorial advisor to the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, published by the University of Nevada.
Stewart is a graduate of the University of Hawai‘i, where he has taught since 1974. In 1998, he received an excellence-in-teaching award, given by the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, and the George Lucas Award, which recognized him for his service to student publications. He is also a recipient of the Elliott Cades Award for Literature and the Hawai‘i Award for Literature, which is given by the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council to a resident of Hawai‘i for outstanding achievement in the field of literature.
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Stewart with Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona (left) and HLAC vice-president Mike Leidemann (right) at the Hawai‘i Award for Literature ceremony. |
has been fiction editor since 1992 and is a professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i, where he has taught creative writing since 1966. His first book, Light and Power (University of Missouri Press, 1980), won the Associated Writing Programs Award. He has published four books set in Hawai‘i: a novel entitled The Red Wind (Mutual Publishing, 1998); and three story collections from Anoai Press, Exiles from Time (1998), Squid-Eye (1999), and Ullambana (2002). He has also published a trilogy of novels set in World War II: Proud Monster (North Point Press, 1987), Orbit of Darkness (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991), and Village of a Million Spirits: A Novel of the Treblinka Uprising (Steerforth Press, 1999, Penguin Books, 2000), which won the 2000 PEN-USA-West Fiction Award. He has made over a hundred appearances in such literary and commercial magazines as Paris Review, Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, and MANOA and has appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best of Triquarterly. For his work as a writer and teacher, he received the 1992 Hawai‘i Award for Literature, the highest literary honor in the state.
has been art and design editor since 1989. The winner of numerous local and national design awards, she is the principal of Barbara Pope Book Design. Recent books designed by her include The Queen’s Songbook (Hui Hanai), Na Mea Makamae: Hawaiian Treasures (Palapala Press), The Shishu Ladies of Hilo: Japanese Embroidery in Hawai‘i (University of Hawai‘i Press), Francis Haar: A Lifetime of Images (University of Hawai'i Press), Buke Mele Lahui [Book of National Songs] (Hawaiian Historical Society), and Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage (Hawaiian Historical Society).
has been managing editor since 1992 and enjoys building websites, combining text and graphics for publication in print and online, reading computer manuals and books on Japanese art and architecture, and having dinner with her friends. She recently began a new business, Peak Services; her collection of poetry, Stray, was published by El Leon Literary Arts and Manoa Books.
is associate editor and was an Abernethy fellow for the 2002–2003 academic year. He lives in Kaimuki, and when not working at MANOA, he haunts the ocean, surfing, diving, and fishing. In his first year as a graduate student in creative writing, he received a John Young scholarship for students in the arts.
was the Abernethy fellow for the 2006–2007 academic year. Originally from Upcountry Maui, she is an award-winning poet and former Fulbright scholar who has been published in journals and anthologies throughout Hawai‘i, the continental U.S., and the Pacific. Her first collection will be released in 2007. Currently pursuing a doctorate in English from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, she is also Assistant Editor for Kuleana 'Oiwi Press, the publisher of 'Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal.
Jennifer Larson
is a senior at University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She is studying English and linguistics and enjoys swimming, running, taking art classes, and learning to speak Italian.
Gabriel Prince
is a carpenter who lives in Kaimuki. He comprises half of the power ballad duo Twentyfive Smiles Per Hour.
Corresponding Editors for North America
Barry Lopez, W.S. Merwin, Carol Modaw, Arthur Sze, Terry Tempest Williams.
Corresponding Editors for Asia and the Pacific
China
Howard Goldblatt,
Ding Zuxin
Hong Kong
Shirley Geok-lin
Lim
Indonesia
John H. McGlynn
Japan
Leza Lowitz
Korea
Bruce
Fulton
New Zealand
& South Pacific
Vilsoni Hereniko
Pacific
Latin America
H. E. Francis
Philippines
Alfred A. Yuson
Western
Canada
Charlene Gilmore
Advisory Group Esther K. Arinaga, William H. Hamilton, Takiora Ingram, Joseph O’Mealy, Robert Shapard.
University of Hawai‘i Press has published MANOA since 1989.