Islands of Imagination I

Frank Stewart, professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, is a writer, translator, and editor of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation, which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He is the Indonesian country editor for MANOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press; the senior editor for I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad. Cobina Gillitt is a translator, freelance dramaturg, and assistant professor of Theatre and Performance at SUNY Purchase. She co-edited and wrote the introduction for Islands of Imagination I: Modern Indonesian Plays (University of Hawai'i Press, 2015) which includes two of her translations, Ought by Putu Wijaya and Make Note! by Rita Matu Mona.