Frank Stewart is the president and secretary of the Mānoa Foundation. An emeritus professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa, he is the author of several books of poetry and prose and a recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Hawai‘i Award for Literature, and the Elliott Cades Award for Literature. His most recent volume of poetry is Still at Large (2021). His edited books concern the literature and environment of Asia and the Pacific and include Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii’s Local Writers (1978), The Presence of Whales (1995), Wao Akua: The Sacred Source (2003), and The Poem Behind the Poem: Translating Asian Poetry into English (2004). From 1974 to 2017, he taught at the University of Hawai‘i.