Editors

Vilsoni Hereniko is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, author, and professor at the University of Hawai‘i. The youngest of 11 children from the small Polynesian island of Rotuma in the South Pacific, he has a Master's degree in education from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England and a Ph.D. in literature and language from the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. In 1991, Hereniko joined the University of Hawai‘i where he teaches courses in Pacific literature, film, and theater. He has published extensively, including a book based on his doctoral research titled Woven Gods: Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma, several children's books, a dozen plays, numerous academic articles, and edited several anthologies on creative writing. He is also the editor of The Contemporary Pacific Journal, the premiere journal on Pacific Studies in the world. In recognition of his outstanding writing, in 1997 he was presented the prestigious Hawai‘i Elliott Cades Award for his "significant body of work of exceptional quality."

Hereniko has also written and directed a documentary, a short film, and a feature film titled The Land Has Eyes. His feature film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and has been screened at numerous film festivals around the world. In 2005, Fiji submitted The Land Has Eyes to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences for Oscar consideration. He has another feature film, also set in the Pacific, in the research and development phase.

Pamela DaGrossa is currently an instructor of anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i’s Windward Community College. She has lived in north and northeast Thailand where in various years she attended university, taught English language and literature, and completed her doctoral research on the meanings of sex among university students. She was Managing Editor of the online journal Language Learning & Technology from 1999 until 2005.