MANOA bids farewell to Ian MacMillan, who served as its fiction editor for many years. A recipient of the Hawaii Award for Literature, the Elliott Cades Award for Literature, and numerous other prizes and distinctions, he passed away on 18 December after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Ian became MANOA’s fiction editor in 1992 and was a professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i, where he had taught creative writing since 1966. His first book, Light and Power (University of Missouri Press, 1980), won the Associated Writing Programs Award. He published several books set in Hawai‘i:
- two novels from Mutual Publishing, The Red Wind and The Braid;
- one novel from Bamboo Ridge Press, The Seven Orchids; and
- three story collections from Anoai Press, Exiles from Time, Squid-Eye, and Ullambana.
He 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 made over a hundred appearances in such literary and commercial magazines as Paris Review, Iowa Review, and Gettysburg Review and appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best of Triquarterly.
